Allan and Paul cook dinner

I'm gratified that we have good friends who don't feel some needless sense of intimidation cooking for/entertaining me and Conrad.We happily accept invitations to dine and we greatly appreciate the effort made. Of course, it helps greatly when friends have a beautiful home and make such delicious food!

Allanand Paul (on the left, Bryan on the right in both photos) hosted a dinner party on Saturday evening - we didn't even get to bring Lauraback to our place first. We headed on over to the guys' place after picking her up at the airport and spent a terrific evening there. Johnand Bryanwere also in attendance. Paul regaled us with his Ethel-Merman-does-Madonna routine (it cracks me up something fierce - Conrad, Laura, and I were still laughing about it the next day, and wishing we had Paul singing it as a ringtone on our phones!). Allan made some dynamic shrimp skewers
and sent me home with a generous bunch of fresh sage (that went into dinner in two ways the next night).

All in all, a fine evening. And photos, of course - Conrad took most of them, so he appears in none, alas.

A blurry shot of Laura, I know, but I like it because she sort of looks like Jessica Biel in it somehow.