FUN FUN FUN

Sometimes after a busy weekend, I can't quite remember everything I did. However, my neighbor did say,

Every time I pass by your door, all I hear is hysterical laughing.

So at least whatever it was I was doing, I was having a good time.

We took out our birthday celebrant on Friday to Illuzion, a new Japanese Fusion Sushi place in town.

The food there was actually really really good. I'm very skeptical of places that look as if they're targeting the "hipster" crowd...as many of those places have mediocre food, often more on the lower end, but the food here was surprisingly excellent. It was obvious that the owner was a Beatles fan because there were Special rolls such as Yellow Submarine and Helter Skelter.

I had the Angry Dragon and I highly recommend it. I think the celebrant had a good time and enjoyed the food, so it was nice! ;)

Back on the home front, while the neighbor was out, we promoted him to our newly-created position of Director of Suspicious Activity. So when we got home, we figured we better give him some work to do.

Coincidentally, our PA system was in need of some fresh air and exercise, so we decided to give it some change of scenery and test it out.

So now with a speaker in front of our Director's front door, the announcements begin. The acoustics of the hallways floors actually sounded nice as different announcements and animal noises echoed throughout the building. In addition to association members being called down to the principal's office and other announcements we shall not mention here, our Director decided to join the creators of suspicious activity in an effort to learn about his new role.



SO, for training purposes, we decided to make our activities even more suspicious by placing the speaker in a cardboard box (illustrated above).

We placed the box by their door and went into the crawl space of the building. Interestingly enough, our director complied without question. He even practiced some of the announcements himself.

Exercises such as this are very important to keeping our local community government on their toes and ready.

Needless to say, that although it was about 9pm, we still managed to wake up the neighbors (whom we only intended to entertain).

Saturday was filled with a 6 hour class in NY and when we came off the PATH, we ran into a "Pub Crawl" - a birthday party which we intended to join later in the evening (after nap). Needless to say we were drawn into the festivities.

We left a little early to recuperate from the day and eat something other than pub grub...namely ice cream.

Sunday I met up with some old friends at Westville for Brunch. I had missed Caroline's birthday adventure the week before so I treated her! Happy Belated 21st!

Ideally we wanted to get cupcakes at Magnolia but there was a line out the door, wrapping around the store, so we decided to nix that idea since the wind was so strong and it was so cold that the only thing that we could think about was how unreasonably cold it was. Even Caroline, who is normally filled with alacrity, could only think of crossing whichever street had the walk sign on just to keep from freezing. Nonetheless it was a lot of fun.

Maybe next time we'll nix the brunch and do a movie...with cupcakes of course.