Girls Night Out.

I emailed the ILC (Int'l Ladies Club) person, Maresi, to inquire about joining them for their Ladies Night Out last night. I'm not an official member yet, not sure if I will join or not. The monies go straight to charity, so that part is cool. Both Karrie and I decided to join their group for the night. It was an extra incentive because it just so happened they were going to meet at a sushi restaurant neither of us had been to yet.

Both Erik and Matt came home early from work so we decided we would leave at 530pm and just walk down to the square (25min). It wasn't too cold and it was still daylight. We got two blocks from our flat and decided we should bar hop our way to our 7pm meeting. Several times Erik and I have driven past this underground pub with a sign that reads "Pub Agawa" and always say to one another, "We should go in some night and check it out". So that's exactly what Karrie and I did. It wasn't too bad. I liked that it had large booths, dim lighting and a full bar. No pool table but lots of darts. We bellied up to the bar and had a beer. After that we continued our walk and decided to have a cocktail at the Dom Vikingow. It's the most popular bar/restaurant for tourists to go on the square. We found a great table right in the front window so we could people watch. It wasn't very busy and the bartender was painfully slow. He was young and seemed inexperienced..cute though. By the time we got our drink we had to "slam it" and get to our dinner group around the corner at Sakana Sushi.

Karrie had been warned that the group was kind of pretentious and would talk about how much money they had. After hearing that I wasn't very excited to meet anyone but we had a few cocktails under our belt so we decided we could just laugh our way through dinner. It turned out that we couldn't get the VIP room because it only held 10 persons and our dinner group ended up being 14. So we were all around a rather nice sushi bar. The chefs were in the middle and they put their creations on these little wooden boats that floated the bar in front of you. You just stack your plates and the prices are determined by what color the plate is. Those of you that have lived in Japan know what I'm talking about.

Anyhow, with this kind of sitting arrangement there wasn't a lot of talking to very many different people. But..everyone that we were introduced to upon arrival was very kind and friendly. Germans, Dutch, Irish and I sat next to a girl from Canada, her name is Alice. It turns out she lives around the corner from us. For the life of me I can't recall what the name of the company is she works for. The Irish girl, Alana, also works at that company. A few of the German wives's husbands work for Volkswagen. They have a huge plant on the east side of town. As for the food, it was good and we ended up enjoying ourselves.

Karrie, Alice and I shared a taxi ride home. It only came out to be around $4, not bad. The taxi driver said he didn't speak English but he smiled when I messed with him. He had some jammin' music on and I really liked it. I was saying, "Wow, this taxi driver is rockin'" "Good taste in music he has". I caught a smile in the rearview mirror. Then Karrie said, "Yes, and he's even singing". She was sitting in the front seat. He laughed a bit after she said that too. I told him "I've got your number Mr, you don't fool me". He smiled again. I'm glad we went out for the girls night out.