My housemate-to-be came up from Washington yesterday for a few days, which gave me a pretext for a dinner. Conveniently, the daughter of an old friend of mine in Japan - I hadn't seen her since she was in high school, and now she's a trained architect, married and lives in London - was passing through town with a friend who flew in from Tokyo, so it felt very cosmopolitan!
But the coolest thing was that we ate outside, by the light of candles under the stars (and planes - the flight path to La Guardia passes over our neighborhood on Sundays, I've since learned), serenaded by crickets. Our back yard is like our own little country retreat!
