This year's theme was CHEESE!! It was also Gary's first Auntie Day with us! It was one of our more mellow celebrations, but that was fine for all of us.
We started off watching an episode of the TV show Chopped because all of the courses had cheese in them! What's really cool is that one of the contestants is from Portland, Atalua, and we're going to his restaurant in a few days! They also got me a giant container of cheese puffs to eat while watching it. They were all mine!! Okay, I did share; I just can't say no to those kids!
The big event for the evening was going to a local fondue restaurant, Urban Fondue.
We skipped the meat course to focus on melted cheese and melted chocolate. So yummy! I was happy that they offered sausage to dip in the cheese so we really had the best of both worlds! In pairs, we got to pick the type of cheese we wanted, and extra sides, as well as the type of chocolate we wanted. We tasted everyone's, and I think that Gary and I chose the best cheese (brie and gorgonzola) and chocolate (dark chocolate with no additions)! Gary hadn't had fondue since it was hip in the '70s, so that was fun!
Another great Auntie Day! I'm happy that my family invented this day for me, and we keep celebrating it! We're trying to convince Gary's daughters to start their own Auntie Day, but they might choose the commercially-set date in the summer. That works better for them.
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