Blue Dome Diner

These blogs are posting in reverse order of how they occurred, so this is Saturday morning breakfast at the Blue Dome Diner downtown. She's laughing at herself for making "food art" out of the little packets of Smucker's. She thinks she would make good advertisements for them. i agree. Who could resist this smile?

This sunny shot of the two of us has replaced the soap-eating Sam as my wallpaper on my computer at work.

Tsunami Sushi

Tsunami is the hip and trendy place to eat sushi. It's a little (pronounced WAAAAYY) over-priced, but the atmosphere and clientele are fun and there's gorgeous art on the walls. i knew Noah would get a kick out of it. It's become sort of a tradition to take her out for sushi. It's always on her "to-do" list. i suspect, from the amount of sushi she eats, that she likes the idea of eating cosmopolitan, "city" food, something she knows will make her parents go "EWWW!!!" more than she likes the actual fish. She's a free spirit, that one.

This adorable little mohawked guy was our sushi chef. He had no trouble understanding what Noah was saying (rare!) and was really nice. She asked for a sample of the salmon and then of the eel and he prepared her tiny little works of art for her to taste. She didn't like the eel, even though it had on what i refer to as a "seatbelt", that strip of seaweed they use to tie the fish to the rice sometimes. How can you not like sushi with a seatbelt?

Here we are, caught in a rare moment of actually eating our food. She kept it simple and went with the salmon roll. i got something called the Maui roll and a Shiitake roll. We always get edamame, too. Oh yeah, and we got calamari this time because she'd never had it and i thought, "Well, it's fried. Surely she'll like it!" She did.

She loves the whole experience, even though we always have to get her some french fries and chicken to round out the meal. And she's about like me with the ol' chop sticks. (Insert funny comment here.)

Isn't she beautiful?

Nothin' Spells Lovin' Like Swingin' A Cousin

There aren't any words so i shan't try to come up with them.

Live Music

About a month ago we went to see a band called The Flaming Lips. They're from Oklahoma City and they're pretty famous nationally, so it was quite a big deal to have them playing in Tulsa. They're quite famous for their live shows and it started out with their lights on stage descending so that it looked like a space ship was landing: Then, the lead singer emerged from the top of the spaces ship in a giant bubble and walked around on top of the crowd in the giant bubble. The pictures were taken with my camera, so they're not professional quality, but if you look close, you can see that this a dude in a giant bubble.

About a week ago, we went and saw Mike Dillon play. Josh, i know i've mentioned this guy to you before. He's my favorite musician to see play live. He's a percussionist who just does insane things and is SO FUN to see play live. He's in about 8 different bands. This particular band was called Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle and was made of Mike on percussion (vibraphone and various other things), Go-Go Ray from KC on set, and some bass player. Here's my cheesy-3-chinned fan pic of me with Mike D. This was downtown at a bar called Exit 6-C. Johnny took all the pics in this particular segment.