Japanese Steak House

Yesterday was a pretty crappy day here, lots of rain. I think the Master's had some serious delays as a result, but considering I am not keeping up on the goings on in that department, I woud be merely guessing. I am pretty sure you don't play golf in thunderstorms though, and we had a terrible one around noon yesterday.

My day started out promising enough, I immediatly hit the gym upon getting out of bed and came home showered and got back out on the road. A new friend of mine, Erika, who is dating a guy I met when I first moved here named Mike, was celebrating her 27th Birthday yesterday. As a result, I was invited to join them for a nice dinner at a place called Miyabi's which is a Japanese Steak House/Sushi Bar. We had a nice group of people assembled, Nikki (Erika's best friend), Karen and Greg, Mike and Erika and Joolie and Eric. Since it's rude to show up empty handed, I spent some time looking for a cool gift to give her. I finally settled on a gift card to Barnes and Noble since she likes to read a bunch, and I think that was a good call. During my search I went by PJ's Coffee House twice to grab a cup and perhaps speak with Tena since I hadn't seen her since we had dinner last Sunday, but the first time I was there she wasn't on yet and the place was dead and the second time I came by the place was LOADED with Master's folks and she couldn't even speak to me for more than a minute she was so busy. Oh, I am pretty sure the first time in there some of the partons were actual goflers in the tournament, but I am horrible at recognizing golfers unless it's Tiger, Phil Mickelson, Ernie Ells, Vijay Signh or someone equally as famous. The guys were bantering about there performance the prior day and didn't look poor, so I am making a guess here that they were somewhat famous in that world.

Dinner was pretty fun, although we made it more fun than the cook did. Traditionally at these steak houses you get a wacky show while the guy is preparing your food, but we have comatose cook who didn't really showboat too much. Might have been that we were drinking, might be the lack of children at our table, not sure. We had a lively conversation and I think Erika quite enjoyed her birthday dinner, so we brought our own fun to the place instead of having it manufactured for us.

After dinner we all rolled back to Eric and Joolie's house for a little night cap until they had to hit the sheets. Then the remaninder of us went to the bar in town which was modestly crowded despite the Masters in town. I guess the bar looks shady enough to keep out the polo shirt crowd. I bored of the evening around midnight and made my way home.



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