Happy New Year!

We definitely rung in the New Year in style.

It all started with last minute (4pm) phone calls to several Austin restaurants trying to find somewhere to dine at a reasonable hour. After Uchi and Zoot both only had 10pm reservations available, we jumped at the chance to get a 5pm reservation at Wink... but that of course meant jumping in the shower and getting ready in 20 minutes, which I managed to do and still look half decent!

So we started the evening at Wink with their seven course "2007 Celebration" tasting menu, which consisted of seared tuna, gnocchi with black truffles, seared lamb, lobster, duck, venison, cheese platter, then we ordered their trio dessert of lemon meringue pot, creme brulee and warm chocolate pudding... it was all so delicious and surprisingly I didn't feel too stuffed at the end. This restaurant is so classy, we even had chilled cutlery for the seared lamb and extra warm cutlery for the duck. It was fantastic. We talked about our plans for 2007, laughed, reminisced about 2006... it was a wonderful dinner.

Afterwards we parked near Jack and Adam's and walked over to see Blue Lapis Light do their show on the side of the Radisson. It was good, although not as good as Requiem (the show we saw back in October) but it was free and it was fun standing in the middle of the city and seeing them dance and abseil down the side of the Radisson! Afterwards we caught a pedicab over to Jack and Adam's and hung out at their New Years Eve party for an hour or so. We saw quite a few of our friends there and it was pretty relaxed and fun. We left around 10:30pm, planning on going to another friend's party but we were feeling so tired by then that we came home and chilled out and just barely managed to make it to midnight, before falling fast asleep around 12:15pm.

It was a great way to spend New Years Eve. Hello 2007!