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Thai Cooking Class

November 8, 2012 By Misono in Family and Friends, Kitchen Concoctions, Recreational Fun Tags: Arlington, birthday, coconut curry, cooking class, cucumber salad, mango, mango with sticky rice, pad thai, Sur La Table, Thai, Thai cooking class, Xiaolu

Sur La Table Thai cooking class

Last Saturday, a bunch of my high school girlfriends and I took a Thai cooking class at Sur La Table in Arlington to celebrate our dear friend Xiaolu’s birthday! This was my first time taking a cooking class (aside from my cake decorating class earlier this year), so it was a new and fun experience for me! I love learning how to cook new dishes, and Thai is one of my favorites, so it was really exciting, and the fact that I could learn with all these girls that I love made it all the more enjoyable and memorable! 😀

Chopping up the ingredients for cucumber salad

Sharing a laugh while cooking... — The birthday girl sharing a laugh while cooking… 🙂

Sur La Table cooking class — Taking a break to eat our first course of the curry and cucumber salad. It was delicious!

The bestest and I. — The bestest and I, reunited!

The chef teaching us how to cut mango for mango with sticky rice.

Watching and learning. — …while the other girls look on.

Mango with sticky rice. — Mango with sticky rice! Yum!!!

Surprising Xiaolu with her birthday cake.

Taking a group picture in the cooking mirror!

Together with our chef, who was a great teacher!

Happy birthday, Xiaolu! Thank you for letting us celebrate with you ♥

An Evening with Girlfriends!

October 20, 2012 By Misono in Family and Friends Tags: Arlington, girlfriends, JMHS, Madison

On Friday night, a bunch of my girlfriends from high school got together for dinner and dessert at Julianne’s new Arlington home! It was a nice get-together to both welcome me back to the area as well as to celebrate our friend Mimi’s birthday and recent engagement. I hadn’t seen some of the girls in over a year, so it was so great to come together and catch up and what’s been going on in our lives. Everyone’s been undergoing really exciting changes in their careers and personal lives! 🙂 Special thanks to Juli for hosting, organizing, and for taking the following pictures!

Listening to Mimi's engagement story — Listening to Mimi’s engagement story

A girls' night isn't complete without three cakes and two cartons of ice cream! — A girls’ night isn’t complete without three cakes and two cartons of ice cream!

It feels like home now that I'm reunited with these girls! — It feels like home now that I’m reunited with these girls!

Thank you also to Dan for watching Mio that evening so that I could have a lovely relaxing time with my friends! 🙂