Fancy Dinner + Fancy Friends

My boss called me into his office a few weeks ago and told me that in appreciation for a project I was working on they wanted me to go out to a nice dinner on the company's dime. If there are two things I like it's food and spending other people's money! 

We decided to take some friends along to help us spend that chunk of change. Who better than our awesome roommates Heather and Ryan. Ryan is an old friend of ours from Santa Barbara and he and his wife got married last summer. Through a series of events they ended up in the Boston area for a few months without a place to stay so we had them move into our spare room. It has been such a blast to have them around! We all watch Spongebob Squarepants together on Saturday mornings, Heather is teaching us all about pharmacology school and we have found a slew of hilarious YouTube videos with them.

After searching for a fancy enough restaurant we decided on Laurie's 9:09 in Wakefield. We all ordered whatever we wanted. Heather and I remarked that we normally scan the menu for one of the lowest price points but it felt so liberating to do the opposite of that!

Heather's Filet Mignon

Sarah's Ribeye, steak fries and creamed corn

The Dr.'s Ribeye, baker and asparagus

Ryan took his challenge to eat the most expensive thing he wanted very seriously. Just look at the concentration on his face as the waiter tied on his lobster bib.

This thing was stuffed with all kinds of sea creatures! I don't think Ryan realized how much work it is to eat a lobster and at one point a chunk of shell went flying across the restaurant to another table. We all just looked away and pretended it didn't happen. We're fancy like that.

We finished off our night with a big slice of tres leches cake. I would have a picture of it but we scarfed it down before I got the chance. It was goooood!

In the end we managed to spend every penny of our budget and stuff ourselves silly which is always a sign of a great evening right?