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New Year's Eve


By Suzanne: Trying to Maintain (Visit website)



New Year's Eve breakfast was nothing special- just the same old breakfast from the day before. I love English muffins and peanut butter! ;)


For lunch I had leftover vegetable fried rice and strawberries (about 6 medium sized berries). I recycled this photo from the last post because I forgot to take a picture.

New Year's Eve dinner was much more exciting than breakfast and lunch. Prashant and I didn't make a reservation for dinner, so our first attempt of getting a table at Ristorante daVinci over the by the Long Beach airport didn't work out so well. Apparently, people eat dinner early on New Year's Eve because they were already fully booked by 5:30 PM! We definitely need to plan better next time.

Luckily, Prashant remembered about Kafe Neo, a little place over on 4th and Temple whose falafel we had been waiting to try. For dinner, I ordered the grilled vegetable skewer plate, which also came with vegetarian rice, Greek salad, pita and tzatziki. Prashant ordered the falafel plate, so I shared one of my skewers with him and he shared a couple of his falafels with me. Kafe Neo's falafels were good, but they didn't taste like traditional falafel. They were very fluffy inside-- like the whipped texture of mashed potatoes.


And, no New Year's Eve celebration would be complete without dessert, so we ordered the Ultimate Chocolate Cake! Here's me before cake:

I'm looking happy...


Can you tell a difference in my happiness level once chocolate gets involved?



After dinner, we went to see the movie "Up in the Air." It was a good movie, but maybe not the movie to watch when you're trying to feel festive and light. It was kind of sad and depressing...

There was a lot of New Year's Eve celebrating going on down at The Pike, so we walked around for a while to check it out.

Here's a few of the highlights of what we saw:





We missed it, but apparently some daredevil jumped 269 feet from Pine Street onto a barge in the harbor in his car! Crazy! I nearly had a heart attack just watching the guys on their bikes jumping off the ramp while doing flips and other tricks.

Prashant and I went home soon after this so we could pop open the bubbly and get ready to watch the Queen Mary's fireworks.

Bubbles...


Fireworks...




Happy 2010! I wish you all good health and happiness in the new year!!


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