Brandon's Puppy

Two degrees revisited

A few months ago I wrote this in which I describe two separate instances where it's clearly evident that this city is not as small as it seems. Those two instances collided last night.

I received an invitation last week from Carlos Navarro, the awesome local artist who designed my uncle's wedding invitation, for his last Gallery Night at his current location. So I invited this fellow Cubanita and new friend of mine, who happens to be the wife of my high school friend featured with Val in the Miami Herald article I wrote about in April. (Didn't I tell you this city was small?!) I figured since they live in the Gables, and we were headed to the Gables, it was the perfect opportunity to catch up and hang out. Smart one, aren't I?!

We hung out at the gallery for a bit, then walked about six blocks to dinner at Bangkok Bangkok, a fabulous Thai restaurant frequented by Tere and her hubby. She reviewed it here on her other blog all about the goings-on in Coral Gables. This worked out perfectly, because I'd been craving Pad Thai for a while. We all started out with yummy spring rolls, and Eric, Tere and I had the Pad Thai appetizer as our main course. Ben had the Red Curry Chicken which smelled great, but I dared not taste for fear of burning off my taste buds. We had great conversation, ranging from the crazy way in which we found each other, to our children, to high school, to careers. Unfortunately, we had to pick up Brandon, and they had to pick up Max, so we parted ways around 10:30 or so. We'll definitely be hanging out again soon though. I promised them a meal, and so I must make good on that promise and cook for them. I think we'd better plan it before the Little Bean arrives though, or they'll be treated to take-out instead. ;-)