Thursday, November 26, 2009
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Thanksgiving at Home Restaurant with Patrick, Mom Ryan, and Sam. We had originally planned to prepare a meal at home, but we encountered some unexpected complications and decided to eat out. Patrick and I both put our semi-vegetarianism on hold for this meal. The meal was very delicious and the service was pretty good. However, we all laughed when we saw the dessert because we were told it would be pumpkin pie or pecan pie and so we were expecting normal slices from an 8-inch pie pan but instead each person received an individual "pie" that was baked in a small (4-inch?) tart pan. There couldn't've been more than 2 ounces of pie filling for each one—laughably small. But it was just as well, since the rest of the meal was so filling and so delicious. We joked about it with the 2 gentlemen at the adjacent table; they were similarly amused. The meal was prix fixe at $40 per person, the least expensive Thanksgiving dinner out that we could find. Afterwards, Patrick and I had more dessert and enjoyed the company at psychobauble and Nate's.