All is Quiet on New Year's Day
We had a pretty quiet New Year's Eve this year. Not quite as quiet as last year, when I sat in HH's living room watching chick flicks, drinking wine, and eating butter chicken. We had decided that we would boycott the usual New Year's scene, as it usually resulted in disappointment.
This year, The Captain of Outer Space (to be introduced in a later blog entry) and I met up with some of his friends from back home and had a yummy Thai dinner at the Green Papaya. I can't get enough of their Chicken Panaeng. We then decided that we would try to find an establishment that wasn't charging a cover fee for the privilege of ringing in the new year with a hundred sweaty strangers. No small feat in O-town. The first year I lived here, I paid $40.00 to go to a local franchise bar to drink tepid fizzy wine and see a poor, cataract-ridden snow tiger (polaroids with the poor beast were an extra $15.00). This year we vowed it would be different.
So, after warming our bellies with red curry and satay, we ventured out into downtown Ottawa to look for a cozy little pub to ring in the New Year. We ended up at The Mayflower II on Queen St. and pretty much had the entire establishment to ourselves until shortly before midnight. Our only fellow patrons were a group of deaf youths (a surprisingly boisterous bunch when the clock struck 12) and an unconcious man at the back of the restaurant that pretty much kept to himself the entire night. It may not sound like much, but as New Year's celebrations go, this was certainly my best yet. Maybe we can make this a tradition. I'll have to bone up on my ASL and CPR for next year though, just in case.
Vanilla Cola
1 oz Absolut Vanilla vodka
1 lime, cut into wedges
Coca Cola (Classic)
ice
Pour vodka, cola, and lime juice over ice in a high ball glass. Garnish with lime wedge. As seen in Pulp Fiction.
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