Wedding Journal

I have tasted the food. And it is GOOD.

Last night, Rob and I met with Colleen, the catering director at Lebanese Taverna, to discuss our options and sample some potential menu offerings for the reception. Colleen seems really cool to work with -- very laid-back, very helpful and super-nice -- and all the food we sampled (some I'd tried before, some new) was uniformly excellent.

We're planning food stations for the reception -- a themed table of mostly "finger foods" in each of the various rooms of the house. We've already decided that we're going to have one table just with cocktail servings of kabobs -- chicken, kafta (beef), shrimp and veggies. We may have other table with fattoush (a type of salad), falafel, stuffed tomato and hummus / pita bread, and a third table with small portions of kibbeh, with both cheese and spinach-stuffed fatayer pastries.

If we've planned it right, we're hoping that the layout of the house and the placement of the food stations will encourage people to walk around and mix and mingle (yay for social engineering). And there hopefully will be enough food on-hand that everyone will get plenty to eat -- and hopefully try (and enjoy!) some new dishes.

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Wikipedia offers entries about particular dates, in addition to content about various subjects. Out of curiosity, I looked up our wedding date, April 29, to see if it had any special historical significance. Events of note:

• 1945 - Holocaust: The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
• 1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind – The last U.S. citizens begin evacuation from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. United States involvement in the war comes to an end.
• 1992 - Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, follow the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 54 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.

April 29 marks the birthdays of William Randolph Hearst (1863), Duke Ellington (1899), Japan's Emperor Hirohito (1901), Dale Earnhardt (1951), Jerry Seinfeld (1954), Daniel Day-Lewis (1957), Michelle Pfeiffer (1958), Andre Agassi and Uma Thurman (1970).

A notable April 29 death: Alfred Hitchcock (1980).

In the Catholic church, April 29 also is the feast day of Saint Catherine of Siena. (Coincidentally, when my family lived in Austin, Texas, the church we attended was named after Saint Catherine.

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Rob and I decided recently that, since we liked Vancouver so much last time, we want to go back this spring for our honeymoon. Doing a little research online, I stumbled upon this little vacation rental gem in the city:

Agent Scully's 'Home' on "X-Files" - Yours on Holiday!

Vacationers can actually rent out the condo used for Scully's Georgetown apartment -- for about $400/night.

On a related note, while it struck me years ago that Scully's place was way nicer than a real agent working with "the FBI's least wanted" could probably afford, I didn't realize just how huge her apartment was until I saw the floorplan here for the three bedroom apartment. Nice digs! (Granted, I think scenes inside Scully's apartment were filmed on a set, rather than this actual unit. But still...)

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