Friday, January 19, 2007
Spent pretty much the whole day in bed sleeping, getting up only for necessities. My back was feeling nearly completely better by the evening, and we had had dinner plans with Phil, Danny, and Drew so we went. Phil's sister Tina had flown in from New Orleans with her daughter Lauren. They brought with them 20 pounds of crawfish for a spicy crawfish boil. No, I didn't have any because I don't like spicy foods, but I don't like crawfish anyway so it didn't matter—it's too much work for so little food on the inside. They also had Popeye's fried chicken (spicy and mild) and deep-fried shrimp and oysters for poboy sandwiches. Delicious! I had forgotten to bring my camera, so I took photos with Drew's camera instead. Afterwards we ate Patrick's homemade banana nut muffins and watched Quyen's slideshow of photos from his and Dave's recent trip to Malaysia and Vietnam. Toan was there, too, and we gave him a ride back to his home in the Castro afterwards.