Ahoy, matey

After our diving adventure Roland, Jason, and I were getting pretty hungry. We packed all of our stuff in the car and headed for home. On the way we stopped to pick up some stuff from the groceria and at that point Jason broke down (his wetsuit was in the trunk now so he couldn't try to gnaw on it) and bought a Snickers bar. Luckily I looked pitiful enough to get a bite while we were walking back to the car. Then we drove home and changed out of our slightly damp clothes to get ready for dinner. Then, the unfortunate part of diving comes in, you have to rinse your gear in fresh water to prevent degradation of the materials. So Jason and I started rinsing and putting stuff out on the balcony to dry.

When we finally finished we were ready to think about some dinner. Ok, way past ready. Roland and I had pretty much all ready decided on where we wanted to go and gave Jason pretty much the one option. Since it was a place where sushi was an option we didn't have to do too much arm twisting (good man, Jason). Roland and I found this restaurant, again thanks to the new Zagat's guide, when my parents were visiting. It is called Jasmine Thai and it is tasty. When we went with my parents we got Thai food, so this time we were keen to try the sushi, plus I'd never had sushi before so I wanted to investigate a new culinary experience. After being seated we perused our menus and chose an appetizer off the Thai menu (it had a lot of my favorite foods, crab rangoons, spring rolls, shrimp rolls, and fried wontons) before losing ourselves in the sushi menu. We were relying on Jason a lot since he was the sushi expert among us and the waitress must of noticed my slightly bemused expression because she came over to ask us if we wanted some assistance. We did, and she suggested the "Boat for Three." This was quite a collection of different sushi items and we could stipulate that we didn't want any salmon sushi, which was good, because neither Jason nor I care much for salmon. Sounds like a good option, lots of choice, designed for three. Sounds great, we'll take it!

Now would be a good time to point out that, like the others (Jason and Roland) I assumed that the "boat" portion of the Boat for Three was like the "happy family" at many Chinese restaurants. A metaphor, not for seriously a boat, more like the conceptualization of a boat, a plate (perhaps roughly ovoid or boat shaped) with sushi on it. But no, it was, a-freakin'-huge-boat-which-looked-like-it-might-actually-float-boat. So this little tiny waitress carries out this three foot long boat filled with ice and covered with sushi. Then another waiter asks if we would like any sauces. We ask what our options are and as he starts to list them our waitress walks past on her way to another table and says, just get them all of them. Sweet, we got all of them. The sushi was good, I especially like the tempura battered ones (slightly sweet). All of them were very large though. One piece of sushi was about the size of four of my version of a bite. I ended up bring dishonor on my family and my families family, and probably all my friends too, because I about half way through I seriously had to but those bad boys up. What made that a little disappointing was that due to the huge bite taking I filled up quite quickly. But that left more for Roland and Jason so they didn't mind.

I was so enamored with the food and the boat that I didn't notice the people who were eyeing our vessel until near the end of the meal when a lady actually came over to the table to ask about it and how it was. I think a lot of people see the price (which looks high because you have to divide that between three people) and *ahem* miss the boat. Although they probably end up spending just as much to get the stuff separately. Overall the meal was very satisfying, but I think I would have liked it more if there were more, smaller pieces.