Couch Potatoes: Enabled

Well, we had a fun-filled, action-packed couple of weeks.

First, we visited the Google NYC office for a week, and we got some fantastic food while we were in the city. Two weeks later, I'm still salivating over the "surf" part of the "Surf and Turf" at Morimoto (yes Iron Chef Morimoto). Fabulous hamachi strips mixed with fresh cherry tomatoes and avocado in a soy/citrus sauce, *mmmmmm*. The appetizers were also amazing, especially the beef carpaccio and the rock shrimp tempura. This may be one of my favorite meals at a restaurant, ever. The sake was certainly the best I'd ever had (but I guess this alone is not an impressive statement, given that the only sake we tried before came from a dollar store and had been through two years of college storage before we finally got around to opening it).

The day after we flew back from New York, we went to Candlestick Park to watch the Patriots crush the 49ers. The backstory to this outing is that Chris bought completely overpriced tickets for this game, the day before Tom Brady's gruesome knee injury. But happily, they still won, and Chris was ecstatic that he got to see the "air show" (Cassell's 66-yard touchdown pass to Moss). Now, we didn't have Patriots garb, so we showed up in Red Sox shirts. We got a couple "Red Sox?! Are you kidding me?!" reactions, but otherwise we blended in with the hordes of 49ers fans also wearing red (oops).

Amusingly, we did end up hearing more chants of "Let's go Red Sox!" than we did chants for the Pats. Even better was listening to the Sox beat the Angels on XM Radio as we sat in traffic on the way home from the game. And even better than that was watching the Sox win the ALDS series a few games later. Sweet sweet victory.

Of course, this weekend is different. The Sox lost in extra innings to the Rays last night, and the Pats were dominated by the Chargers.

On the bright side:

• Our couch (from Customs House) got delivered! It's a glorious L-shaped sectional that both Chris and I can stretch out on it without intersecting AND it seems to be indestructible by cats (so far). Looooove it love it.
• Speaking of cats, we finally cleaned up enough of our condo so that we could let them out of the second bedroom. Freedom! It's hilarious how they fishtail and make scrabbling noises in place as they try to make sharp turns on the hardwood floors. Silly cartoon cats.

So, after our exciting travels and plenty of hard work, we are now blissfully enjoying our couch-potatohood for a few weeks.