So yesterday was great, myself, Aphrodite and Mafia Princess drove over to Woodbury Retail Outlets, which is a huge collection of stores which hold all their stock at discounted prices. However the Prada store is still too expensive for my taste, but it does have FABULOUS stuff.
I got a slip and a heavy beaded necklace which I'm into at the moment, though I'm sure it will pass.
So tonight we had a 10pm booking for La Bouchon a small french restaurant in Cold Spring village. Yes I'm, sure most of you partied till the wee small hours and got up to all kinds of trouble, but I'm getting a bit old for all that crap, so a nice dinner with good friends is all I need these days.
We thought that we would have the biggest table, but unfortunately there was a gathering of 12 on the table adjacent to us and we hated them on sight. Well they were very rude, and VERY loud, which is ok I guess on New Year's Eve but according to Aphrodite they kept telling US to keep quiet...cheeky bastards.
Also they were a funny looking lot, one woman in particular had had major facial surgery and had that alien-like stretch look going on. Shit now I wish I'd taken a picture of her. She was weird and could barely walk properly, probably because she's like 150 and thinks she's still 70.
One of the owners had asked Professor to bring some of his 80's cd's which is always good music to listen to on New Year's Eve, but apparently some bald dick at the other table demanded that the music be changed because he hated it. I'm telling you these people were nasty, just rude, obnoxious and apparently they all own property in Beacon (town near to Cold Spring) and keep putting up the rents on the artists buildings which is a huge collection in Beacon as that's where they all congregate, so the local creative, artistry types HATE THEM, especially the guy from our restaurant, who I'm assuming is a budding artist himself.
Also after we'd let the New Year in, one of their party, this stupid really drunk woman, kept getting up, going over, grabbing a balloon, bringing it BACK to their table and then bursting it, which was getting to be really really fucking annoying.
Also her AND another woman made really crude and suggestive remarks to Professor, which normally he can handle, but I think even he was taken back by it.
Of course our table was full of fabulous people, I mean look at us, 
, well, not me but our friends Connie, Daniel and Timothy, who is a blast and kept making me laugh throughout dinner.
I should of got a shot of his belt, which was a oblong diamente buckle attached to paper thin leather pants, paired with his blue jacket, he did look fabulous and very festive.
Of course all the boys were playing with their new toys, AT THE DINNER TABLE, 
which I guess is ok, especially as they seemed so happy with their toys, even though Morpheus kept grabbing Professor's new camera, which is the same as mine but a newer version, and has the capability of recording movies, which is kind of fab.
We had a prix fixe meal of oysters to start, which aren't really my thing, 
but were delicious because they'd been baked or poached (whatever) with spinach, tomatoes, butter and herbs. Yum they were delicious but Aphrodite and Mafia Princess opted to go for the salad instead, which is still ok.
I'm glad I tried them as oysters are not really my thing, you know the whole snot texture kind of freaks me out a bit. So what else, yeah we blew those silly noise things, we ate and ate, oh yeah our next course was foie gras, which I love. Then straight after we had a surprise which was a poached quail egg that was served in a champagne sauce and some kind of pesto dressing. At first everyone just stared at it, but then we all gulped it down, it was delicious, although I don't think Hermes thought so. Actually Neal was funny, he just thought it tasted of any kind of poached egg, which to be honest was true.
For my main I order the beef which was actually beef wellington, so when Neal saw it, he immediately changed his mind from the lobster to the beef, which caused a bit of commotion and eventually he ended up getting the beef AND the lobster...lucky boy.
Actually we didn't get our entrees until after we'd let the New Year in and to be honest I wasn't very hungry, 
, I'd drank too much champagne and fizzy water so I was full.
So that was it, we drank, we laughed and we ate, lots and lots of food. I think everyone had a good time, at least, they looked like they did. 
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Well let's put it this way I've never seen Professor so giddy before, he was like a child, laughing, giggling, enjoying the night, not one whinge or moan all night, THAT my friends is unprecedented for that boy...good for him 
Afterwards we returned back to the house, whereupon Aphrodite proceeded to go directly to bed, still with her coat on, and the rest of us stayed up for an hour or so and then crashed. It was probably around 3:30/4am when we all got to bed, which for New Year is bloody brilliant for me.
Once again HAPPY NEW YEAR, let's make 2003 a good one eh?
