Tonight Christopher and I are getting together with my cousins Katie and Kris (you've heard of them--they're the two who are going to be doing the Breast Cancer 3-day this year -- read about them, here), and we're going to go out to dinner. Why is this newsworthy? Because tonight is "Dining Out For Life" in the Twin Cities.
If you haven't heard of it, Dining Out For Life is a fund-raiser for AIDS-related service organizations which is "celebrated" at different times across the country. (Locally, it's sponsored by The Aliveness Project.) On a given day in each of these metropolitan areas, restaurants offer to give a certain amount of their income for the night and donate it to local groups who provide services to those living with HIV and AIDS throughout the community. Even more than that, often the wait staffs will do the same -- donating their tips or even their total wages.
So, tonight, we're going to get together and do our part by simply eating. We're hoping to have dinner at a great little restaurant called Blackbird, which isn't too far from our place. I say that we're "hoping" because Blackbird is -- in point of fact -- a small restaurant which doesn't take reservations. This is not a big deal most Thursday nights, but they are donating at least 35% of tonight's income, so there's a very good chance that they're going to be swamped. We're coming up with contingency plans, but hopefully we'll be eating there.
No matter what, I gotta say... When you can make a donation to a great cause just by eating... Wow. Philanthropy has never tasted so good!
** Wondering if there are any Dining Out For Life opportunities coming up in your area? (Even though most of them happen on the same day, some cities are different.) Check out their nationwide website. **
1 comment:
Oh man nothing's more frustrating and potentially more rewarding than those tiny restaurants that don't take reservations! There was one in Cville with the BEST goat cheese nachos that had a sign that said "Too Small? Too Crowded? Too Bad." It drove me nuts. But the nachos were worth it--at least until I had kids.
Sounds like a good cause--have fun.
Oh, and because my yard is wet I am hoping to plant several varieties of willows. I already have some knotted shrub, don't even know its name, planted in standing water (we are hoping to fix that). I want a Scarlet Curly Willow (is that what it is called?), a Harry Loudon's Walking Stick, and of course the grand daddy of them all, a Weeping Willow. Yes one corner of my yard is quite wet thanks to diverted pond run off hitting it. We are going to divert that to a ditch that runs to the creek--it is along that ditch that the birch was planted. But I think it will still be wet enough for the willows. I love willows.
OK like you wanted to know all of my landscaping plans. ;)
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