Last night, i had the wonderful experience of going to a colleague's birthday party/dinner in downtown San Jose at the Old Spaghetti Factory. I got her a cute "clubbing" purse and some of her favorite gum, for her milestone birthday! It was really a fun dinner, with most of our core Peet's family in attendance. I had the mizithra cheese, which always is excellent, with the creamy pesto salad to start. yum.... And our waiter even brought us out a dish of the contraband croutons!!!
The most interesting thing about the dinner was the fact that there were about 50 cops swarming around the restaurant all night! It turns out that the San Jose Police were fundraising for the Special Olympics, and the officers were serving our drinks for tip money for the Special Olympic team. There were even some Olympic athletes carefully serving drinks. Overall, the OSF dinner was awesome- and a really great time spent with the Morgan Hillbilly Peetnik family.
After dinner, we walked a little bit around downtown. The nightlife scene was "poppin," in the words of one of my fellow baristas, and it was very crowded on the streets. A short distance from the restaurant was one of the venues for the San Jose Jazz Festival, so we all got some wristbands and watched one of the bands for a while. They were this foreign band, maybe from Canada or Europe, who had about six violins and really rocked out! It was ridiculously fun- and fascinating to be at the center of so much activity!
Well, that's all for now- more coming soon : D
1 comment:
Sounds like a great time. With the right people life can be a lot of fun. 8 )
Uncle Pat
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