You Can't Rock Out With Stemware

For Thanksgiving I decided to do something that I had never done before. I decided to celebrate in a not so social way. Holly and I decided to see a few movies and then have a fabulous dinner at the Beach Chalet.

At Noon Holly arrived and after a brief wardrobe crisis, we left to see For Your Consideration at the Metreon. At the risk of sounding like someone who doesn't know what they are talking about...I don't really like these movies. Yes, I can see that they are ironic, sardonic and satyrical however, they elicit merely a chuckle from me. At one point I looked over at Holly and her mouth was open in disbelief to what was happening on screen.

After the flick we swung by the Hardrock Cafe. I have a German friend who needed a shirt replacement. FYI-They do not make the "original" Hardrock shirt in black anymore. There were some tourists milling about on the wharf, but for once traffic was not insane over there. I double parked and ran in.

Shirts in hand, we made our way to the Beach Chalet for our very romantic reservation time of 4:15pm. We were about 45 minutes early so we walked across the street to Ocean Beach and marveled at the fabulous weather while we walked on the beach a ways. It was relatively warm, sunny and beautiful. Back at the restaurant we got seated right away and immediately ordered a Kir Royal. We both settled on the "turkey dinner" which was just amazing. Traditional Thanksgiving fare with some updated flavors. Holly started with the squash soup and I had a yummy salad with cranberries, pumpkin seeds and chevre. We had 3-4 perfect slices of white meat, some yummy kind of smoked darkmeat pieces, garlic mashed potatoes, baked sweet potatoes, stuffing and yummy gravy. We were not rockin' the "chinese BBQ pork red" color of the cranberry sauce but whatevs. We also both got the pumpkin pie. We drank a pretty good bottle of wine. We savored the food and the sunset as long as we could.

After dinner we headed to the Lumiere neighborhood and stopped in at Casablanca Cafe for a coffee before our next movie started. We caught the Jonestown Massacre documentary. Both Holly and I had no idea they spent some of their time in San Francisco. Only in SF will they appoint a certified loon to a public position. See the movie.

I was pretty fidgety in the theatre due to the caffeine and amount of food in my gut and was psyched to head home after a long day. Yay!