a big win!

so tonight we went to try out a new BYOB in the hood- and it was fab! the place is called Bien Me Sabe and it is Venezuelan - with wonderful service and an extensive menu and terrific food... here it is in photos-

We brought a Chassagne Montrachet to try (checking it out for buying) and Mike brought a very nice Rhone (shown below) - and missing from the photos were the shrimp tostones which two of the group ordered and were wonderful and the empanada sampler which we split up four ways - so we each got a taste of the beef,chicken, and cheese empanadas- all good and opinion split on which was best- LOL

winner all around- and we will definitely be back here for sure!

dylan

do we think there is any situation in life that Bob Dylan hasn't somehow captured in his thousands of songs?  I was about to title this post "one more" when a song of Dylan's came into my head "one more cup of coffee for the road. one more cup of coffee 'fore I go...to the valley below" I don't even really know what song it is but I can so clearly hear HIS voice singing it....

but I seriously digress because I was going to post one more photo from the Colombia trip sent to me today by Nancy Pinson. (OK- two)  It is a photo of me with my arepa (the actual one I made upon close instruction) and the arepa ladies who guided me in the process...LOL  - so soon we will head to the airport but since we still haven't left I have time to post one more photo from the last trip before I go....

as you can see the folks there are quite a bit shorter than I am - LOL- even leaning in they still only reach shoulder height. And even funnier - you can see how enthralled this lady was in teaching me (another incompetent tourist she thought- LOL) how to make an arepa (she was probably thinking I can't believe you could get to their age and not know how to do this- LOL)