Birthday Eve

I had a wonderful day today. Despite this weekend's mishap on my ankle, I survived a whole shift at clinics today. The highlight of my evening: Dinner with Ton. He's a very dear friend of mines. I think it's been ten years... well, maybe more... that we've known each other. I forget how many years because it's been so long. He invited me to eat Horinoya for my birthday!! =) Isn't it sweet? It was my first time there and the food was great. The ones he picked were the best. Most defintely a person who knows what to eat. It was Kobe beef?! I must write in details!!! Thinly slice kobe beef and it was setup with a hot pot with fresh vegetables and noodles all in front of us. We blanched the thin beef ourselves to our liking (raw or fully cooked). I cooked mines only slightly and it still looked pink with blood still dripping from it. And cooked the vegetables under simmering heat with noodles. It was very cool. We also ate something else that was beef too. The waiter cooked it fresh at our table. It was seared on the outside and raw on the inside set in its own ponzu sauce. Plus, the Passion Roll which consisted of alot of the raw fishes wrapped with no rice with its own dipping sauce. It was good too. That's alot of food for two people man! It was amazing we did a very good job finishing it besides the udon noodles. It was great because, to me, it was a big dinner but didn't left me feeling heavy. It's not the kind of food you eat to full and can't even walk out or want to fall alseep right after. After dinner, we drove around downtown enjoying the city lights and it's nightly liveliness. It was still early in the night on a Monday so very little traffic. He showed me places he'd been to and talked about things that happened there. He also showed me where Brad Pitt house was!!! Muah hahaha! I'm a newborn stalker now! LOL! Just kidding. But I'll try to pass by when I'm near. Which is rarely. Anyways, I had a very enjoyable evening. Very much like me and would love to do that again. Just being a part of the city and taking it all in. Ahhhhh, I'm thinking I'll save it for another entry.