A Night at TAZA...

Tonight I worked the door at TAZA. Saam and Sarah Jaine were behind the bar. The band was done at 11:30 and we just left at 1:30...sitting at that damn circle table just telling random stories.

I love nights like these and it's this kind of night that I'll miss...

Our Houston Days...

So, without putting too much catchup in here - we're moving to Houston. We're here this weekend to do our final walk through on our house and HOPEFULLY close on Friday. I love the house,I love it. I really wanted to rent, but we fell in love with it the SECOND we walked in.

I have this AMAZING friend here, her name is Jen. She has shown me the "local" version of Houston and I have to say, I love this city. Of all the times I've left my dear, wonderful Cincinnati, I can honestly say, this is the first time I'm really excited all the way through me about it. Except Taza, my sweet Taza, I'll miss you.

So I thought I'd start keeping track of our days...

Today we were supposed to do our walk through. They had a few more things to fix, so they pushed it back to this afternoon or tomorrow morning. So, we have the day to hang out in Houston. Now, when I'm with Jen, I feel comfortable navigating the city. It's just me and Evan today though, so we got to explore.

First stop...food. We're hungry and I have only done dinner here, we (Jen and I) normally grab Jamba Juice (amazing!) for lunch and do a big dinner. SO I got on my "magic phone" as Saam calls it and used UrbanSpoon to find a spot. We fell on Barnaby's Cafe. It sounded the best.


In Urban Spoon, it only had one dollar sign which meant cheap, so we didn't know what we'd be driving to or what kind of place would be there when we arrived.

First, Barnaby is a dog apparently. The place has bones and clouds on the ceiling and it seemed pretty nice. People were on their laptops and there were "CityBeat-esque" (local mags) type magazines outside the door. Our drinks...they make fresh strawberry lemonade, like Red Robin...but they were out so we "settled" for regular lemonade. It came out in this huge milk jug type thing. The type of jug they used to deliver milk back in the days they delivered milk and it was AMAZING. All "pulp-y" and what not. As soon as I figure out how to post pictures on this thing I will.

The reviews talked about these waffle fries with blue cheese fondue, so we ordered that and it did not disappoint. I didn't get a picture, but imagine waffle fries....with blue cheese fondue ;)

I thought I'd get something light and I went with an egg salad sandwich, easy. Evan got a hickory bbq burger. GOOD-NESS there was nothing light about anything. My egg salad sandwich was HUGE, it had tomatoes, onion, lettuce and bacon on it. It was held together with very tall toothpicks with olives on the top. Evan's sandwich was that burger, right, but it also had 3 slices of ham, shredded cheese and bbq sauce... it was CRAZY.


The COOLEST thing is that everything is either recyclable, able to be composted or 100% biodegradable. Even my to-go cup was made out of corn and I could compost it. HOW AMAZING.


I'm super excited about this city! And I'm even MORE excited about living here with Evan!