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I went for fondue last night at the little joint up the street in Shenandoah. It isn’t really like traditional Swiss dining where the cheese course can be the main, but more compartmentalized into dining salvos. Grùyere and Emmenthaler, white wine, garlic, nutmeg, lemon and Kirschwasser made up the cheese dish… which is always my favorite. You can’t have enough cheese. There was salad in there somewhere before the critters. We picked the combo of lobster tail, filet mignon medallions, balsamic-marinated sirloin, garlic and herb chicken, citrus pork tenderloin, white shrimp, wild mushroom ravioli, and roasted red pepper rigatoni. The balsamic-marinated sirloin and red pepper rigatoni were my favorite, but it was all pretty tasty except for the herb chicken. It just didn’t jive with anything else on the plate… too lemony? Anyway, when all that was done, there was chocolate. I’m not a big sweets guy, so we ordered the least sweet chocolate they had… hazelnut dark chocolate with rasberry puree. They bring fresh fruit and little pastry chunks to dip in it as well as some cheesecake. Out waitress was this adorable miniature Drew Barrymore from back when she was hanging with ET in the closet. Gemmah? She took the time to bring Spy vs. Spy printouts, explain the “Jazz Dot”, and even snap a photo and frame it. We even were told what “B.A.” meant to the kids now days and how we were “B.A.M.F.’s”. I felt so old, but it was fun. Her 21st birthday is coming up in a week and the reality that I’m old enough to actually be her father is just freaky to me. That has to be a parental milestone to watch your kid order her first legal drink. The fondue joint was pretty good overall, but that restaurant can never compare to Mona Lisa’s. Of course, I’m bias. After dinner we went to The Boulevard in The Woodlands… the sign outside just says BLVD. I couldn’t find a web site for it. It was a lot larger inside that I realized. There is an upstairs lounge area as well as a rooftop outside part. I really don’t like the boomchicka places that much, but it was ok for the area I suppose. It is more downtown than most of the clubs in the piney north. By the time my head hit the pillow, I was so ready for some sleep. I suppose I slept fairly well and am looking forward to a lazy day. Other than fundamentally compromising my principals for the sake of a friend, this weekend has all the potential to be fantastic. I think Ed and I are supposed to go out tonight now that I’ve recovered from whatever that Ebola-esque thing was last week. It’s the first time we’ve really planned anything since the trip where I got sick. Georgia thinks it might have been Giardia lamblia from the spring fed tank we were cleaning the moss in that Saturday. I was the only one of the three of us that submerged completely… I suppose it could happen. My dad is in and out of those tanks all the time though and never gets sick, so I don’t think it’s likely. A lot of the symptoms were more flu-like anyway. I still was kicking around how to get here this year. Not so much for the Fan Faire, but more for the trip to Iceland. EVE is a very cool MMO, but I don’t know how I would do with all the super-geeks attending. Time is short to make a decision. Iceland Air has some great packages, but they are all double occupancy. Oh well.