12/15 Tuesday, company holiday party.
Winchester Mystery House is the first event of the party. It's okay: a wealthy widow's whim to keep building. Chilly (only 1 room at the exit is heated). This is a surprising cold day, down to almost freezing.
Kuma Escape is a small company on the 3rd floor of an electronic shop building. Small office rooms. We had 2 teams, neither escaped. Each team is divided into 2 halves, each in a separate room. So one team may find clues for the other team. Need to find a way to communicate. It leads to a key to your room. Once two halves combined, we have more clues to solve. You have 1 hour and employees are counting the time. Quite fun. A good team building event.
We then gathered at a bar waiting for our dinner reservation at 8:30 at Nick's Next Door. I went to my AirBnb, changed to a skirt, left my backpack, and walked to the restaurant. We were seated in the yard, with heating torch, in a big tent. Had to wait for a table of dinners to leave. Food is innovative here. I enjoyed all the dishes. Here're a few photos. The first 3 are shared appetizers. Lobster roll with apple slices, duck confit leg, short rib. For first course, we had choices of tomato bisque and caesar salad with anchove. For main dish, I had seared sea bass on a bed of beans cooked with pork (which caused some issue with some pescetarians). The other option is ribeye with bone marrow. I tasted a slice of the ribeye, it was cooked to an excellent light pink. Had 2 flute of champagne, didn't bother with wine. Tequila was flowing for a few. They had to call Uber to go home. Desert is shared, which is a good idea. We were all too full. I had to learn to make short speeches for the next time.