Good afternoon everyone, It's Sunday!
Even though this last week was quite short (I traveled on Monday), it was a long week for me. I'm used to working a lot but somehow it just drained me this past week. Friday was a good day though as we got a major deliverable turned in and then we all went to 51 degrees for an after work lime. I left a bit early and had dinner at Trinidad's nicest restaurant, an American style steak house called Prime. We have steak quite a bit in the US, but somehow it just tasted better here; maybe because it's totally unique and way above the quality of a lot of the other food here...maybe it's just familiar. Whichever it was, it was expensive. Probably at least twice the price of an American steak house (think Ruth's Chris or something similar). Anyway, totally worth the price because it put a great cap on my busy week.
Anyway, we had an interesting time on Friday. We started out at 51 Degrees, showing up at 5:00pm like they had advertised. Of course, they weren't ready to let anyone in and told us to come back at 6. So, we went across the street and down to one of the Chinese restaurants in town called Jenny's on the Boulevard. Jenny has quite a large bar in the basement of the restaurant, so we went down there and hung out until the club opened. I never realized how big that bar is; it just keeps going and going. Anyway, we only got to have one beer because the service was so slow. They could have tripled their sales if the person would have just got to us sooner. By the time we had to leave we were frustrated and unfortunately sober.
When we got back to 51 Degrees, we were the only ones in the club. One thing about Trinidad is that the people come out VERY late. I think this has a lot to do with the traffic. People get home so late from sitting in traffic that they stay home or by friends for dinner and then take their time coming back to party. By the time I had finished dinner and made it back to 51 Degrees, the club was still empty and it was 10:00. However, once the live band finished, the club filled up within an hour and we had a great time. I hadn't been out in awhile and it was nice to be picked up by the great energy.
Not sure what else I can say today; my focus is pretty much on going home this coming Friday. I get to be in Denver for a whole 10 days - it's very exciting for me. I can't think of a single time that I've been home for 10 days in the past year and a half. Justin says that fall is starting to creep in to Denver; that makes me very happy too. I'll have to dig out my sweater.