Happy Friday and happy National Brownie Day! Birthdays: Camille Claudel, Diego Rivera, Sammy Davis Jr, Gregg Allman, Jim Morrison, Mary Gordon. Our community project for today: we're off to Spain! Wear a perfume that is named for a place in Spain, or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to Spain, or that features an Spanish ingredient, or ?
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I'm in L’Artisan Parfumeur Séville à l’Aube.
Reminder: on 12/15, wear whatever you like, but tell us the name your fragrance should have had. (If the name is perfect, that's an acceptable answer.) Someone suggested this recently, raise your hand if it was you!
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2023, where I'll try (but usually fail) to have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is 2270-Pazo de Oca en A Estrada (Pontevedra) [cropped] by Jose Luis Cernadas Iglesias at flickr; some rights reserved.
Hello and tgif!
I am twinning with Robin today in Séville à l’Aube. Truly a beautiful creation.
Brownie day! Looks like I need to go grab myself a tub of Ben and Jerry’s Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice-cream. Perfect treat for a Friday too.
Hey twin! We do smell great today. I did not manage brownies though.
Happy Friday! SOTD is Samsara vintage perfume, just a dab, for today’s 45-degree weather. I was happy to discover my new(ish) boss also adores this perfume.
Working from home with a huge to-do list, I’m thankful for a huge cup of Chai tea. Hope to check in later!
I love your SOTD
Smelling lovely today!
In Ramon Monegal Flamenco for the CP. Sample thunked!
Happy Friday! 🌻
How perfect! ⭐️
Thank you!
I have a Ramon Monegal discovery set. I’m wearing Umbra.
Two RMs in a row!
Hello all!
It’s a drizzly day here and sadly not cold enough for a coat. I was going to go with Seville a L’Aube but could only find my back-up bottle. So instead I went with Hiram Green Arbole, perhaps the friendliest patchouli around.
Working at an estate sale this weekend, though sadly there isn’t any perfume at this one.
Have a great day all!
I hope you have fun working at the sale.
Pretty tame but luckily not tempted by anything!
Yuck. Drizzle.
Happy Birthday Diego Rivera- Do you know he used our picture collection at NYPL
Inspired by Kanuka I found a small dabber vial of Journey Woman.
I am wafting in calm and elegance
Some of you may not believe this, but my older child has turn 9 today. It puts in perspective 1. I am getting older 2. How long I have been a part of this NST community, which is longer than 9 years of course.
In looking back at older family Christmas photos, I am reminded that I used to be/look a lot younger! I love that many of us have been here on NST a long time.
Happy Birthday to the child!
I think I’ve been around for 13/14 years on NST myself!Time flies….✌🏻
I love that perfume. Happy birthday to the junior perfume lover!
Happy Birthday to your oldest!
I think I joined NST sometime between your first and second.
Happy birthday to your oldest!
Happy birthday to your 9 year old! His birthday also reminds me how long I’ve been on NST 🙂
Best wishes for a happy birthday to little LTSG!
Happy birthday to your 9-year old 🎉! Treasure every moment because sooner than you know that 9 will be 19! Enjoy! Birthday 🥳
Wow. I remember when you posted that you were expecting your oldest. Hope he had a wonderful birthday today!
I remember when you were pregnant! Happy 9th birthday.
I also remember when you were pregnant! Happy birthday to ltsg jr.
Happy Birthday to her!
I chose Balenciaga Le Dix for the CP — originally a Spanish perfume house founded by Cristobal Balenciaga Eizaguirre, a Spanish Basque according to fragrantica. Apparently the Spanish Civil War prompted him to relocate his business to France, but after retiring he moved back to Spain where he passed away in 1972. (I seem to be channeling Mr. G’s father, who I never met but who was a history teacher.) Anyway, I smell beautiful!
You do smell beautiful! Le Dix is one of the classics.
Le Dix is so elegant.
Love Le Dix,and now the shop that had the fabulous vintage bottles of everything and anything is no more….
You smell lovely!
Le Dix is so beautiful. IIRC, I received a compliment the first time I wore it out and about.
I appreciated the history lesson. 😉
I love Le Dix. Someone gifted me a set of perfume minis years ago and the vintage Le Dix in that set is my favorite and the source of violet as a favorite fragrance note for me.
I’m going with Zara Leather Jardin today. As much as I loved Spain and all the lovely smells there, this one is the easiest to grab and go with. 🙂 I finally have a day with few meetings, which of course means I need to do all the work I’ve been putting off all week.
Beautiful crescent moon from my (home) office window this morning — looks like a sunny day is in store, for once.
Would love to smell this eventually,our local Zara does not stock it as yet though!
Ah yes, Zara … of course! It completely slipped my mind that they’re Spanish as well :-).
Scent twins in Leather Jardin! I do believe you won an enabler pin for my purchase of a bottle. 🌟
Having learned that Alberto Morillas was born in Spain, I went through his scentography and discovered that as far as I can tell, his first fragrance was Salvador Dalì (who was also born in Spain!), which I fell in love with almost 40 years ago and have always had a bottle of: it’s extraordinarily beautiful, a multifaceted eighties-style floral oriental with a curlicue of smoke, every part perfectly considered, seamless from start to finish. It’s a genuine work of art — of genius, I should say. (I was surprised to find out how many of his creations I own: he followed Dalì with the first Panthére de Cartier and then Rochas Byzance, both very much in the same style, and also did Cartier Le Baiser du Dragon.)
In addition to the EDP I’m lucky to have the actual parfum, in the nose-and-lips bottle but shiny black instead of frosted clear glass, and I’m so happy to be wearing that today.
I’ve always been curious about Dali, it has such a cool bottle.
I wore it the other day, love it.
Loving the CP this week because everyone is sharing so many history lessons and interesting stories. Thanks!
Today I am wearing Paco Rabanne’s La Nuit, which is honey, an incredible amount of skank, hot beeswax and there might even be a rose in there somewhere. Tragically discontinued and so out of fashion it might as well be a Claude Montana leather jacket.
This is one of my white whales! I’m sure you smell fabulous.
It might be out of fashion but it is staggeringly good: I have the parfum and it is one of the treasures of my collection. You smell incredible.
“Out of fashion perfume” can be a siren’s call to folks here at NST.
So true!
I’m wafting everything but the kitchen sink today!
Sol de Janeiro bum bum body lotion,Kayali Deja Vu White Flower Hair perfume and 8 or so spritzes of Byredo Flowerhead to top it all off.Dubai,Brazil,India and Sweden represented!But the sum of it all smells like a vacation in Ibiza or a hot night strolling through the Alhambra…
XO’s!
You smell truly amazing. ♥
Haha!Thank you!✌🏻🤗
That all sounds great. I hope it’s warm over there and the sun is shining on you!
We’ve been having a heatwave these past 3 weeks,today again hovered around 34 celcius,but we just had a wonderful cloudburst so the evening air is cool and fresh!Hope summer has arrived for you too!✌🏻🤗
Yeah, it’s 15C…toasty warm. Not!
Oh no….sorry!!
There is the layering of perfumes, and then there is a perfumista pulling out all the stops! I prefer the latter, and am sure you smell fabulous.
It sounds chaotic but oh boy,it really did work!👏🏼👏🏼🙃
Wow! I might be able to get a whiff of your waft here in New Jersey!
Hope the wafts are smelling good!🤣🤣✌🏻
I love Spain. I think some of my love stems from the fact that my Spanish is at least passable and I really enjoy using it; it’s such a wonderful thing to be able to communicate in another country. But I also love the culture and the countryside and the food and the museums and the plazas. We spent a few days in Sevilla last September and had a blast. I’ll wear Alahine today now that I have finished my workout.
I love alahine ♥️
People who can speak another language awe me. I know bits and pieces of German, but my parents used to speak it when they didn’t want us kids to know what was going on.
I am predictably in Seville a l’Aube.
I still have a little paperback of Garcia Lorca poems – Spanish on the left page, Ukrainian translation on the right page – back from my uni days. While I have never been his fan (his poetry just does not stir me for some reason), it is amazing how well one poem matches this scent.
Its title is Baladilla de los tres rios, and there are several English translations online. I am linking a page that contains both the original and a word-by-word English translation – https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=20307
However, personally I prefer a literary translation by Rolfe Humphries, so I am posting it here in full (as a reply to this comment).
Little Ballad of Three Rivers
by Federico García Lorca
The Guadalquivir river
Flows between orange and olive.
Two rivers of Granada
Come down from snow to wheat field.
Ah, Love, the unreturning!
The Guadalquivir river
Has banks of ruddy garnet.
Two rivers of Granada—
One weeps, and one is bloody.
Ah, Love, lost in the air!
Seville has a highway
For stately sailing-vessels.
But for Granada water
Only the sighs go rowing.
Ah, Love, the unreturning!
Guadalquivir, high tower,
Wind among orange-blossoms.
Genil and Darro, lowly
And dead among the marshes.
Ah, Love, lost in the air!
Who says the water breeds
Will-o-the-wisps at twilight?
Ah, Love, the unreturning!
Bear olive and orange-blossom
Seaward, O Andalusia!
Ah, Love, lost in the air!
Translated by Rolfe Humphries
Nothing like GarciaLorca!
Lovely, thank you!
Back in the early 90s I spent about six weeks near a village called Piedrahita, about 70km from Salamanca. I was with a group of French and Swiss friends who spent the summer hang gliding from the mountain above the village, doing long distance flights ( around 300km) and I was the driver. We camped in small tents on the hillside, surrounded by wild thyme and lavender, and early every morning a shepherd passed by with his flock. We had no running water, but filled bottles from the well in town each evening and once a week took a shower in the local school. I wore Boucheron at the time and my friends joked about my “Douche Italienne” …as I must have applied it liberally. The landscape I drove through, usually towards Avila, Segovia and Sofia was very sparsely populated, and the ground was the colour of terracotta, a rich brown. Some fields were planted in sunflowers. It was very hot, around 40C and very dry. I spent a lot of time watching the sky, the clouds and the hang gliders riding the thermals . We communicated in French, over walkie talkies , and it was sometimes difficult getting to the place where the pilots landed, using maps and farm tracks. A very special time. I am wearing Copper, for the colour of the metal and bottle, which reminds me of the countryside on the other side of the world.
Kanuka, what a beautiful memory! Imagine spending time doing exactly what you want-and to have that be hang gliding. Fantastic!
What a fantastic experience!
… and what a great scent, of course!
What a wonderful adventure – I will have to check out Copper.
Thank you for painting such a beautiful picture!
What an experience. I loved the story you told. And I loved that you wore Boucheron and made do with one shower a week.
There was a dam close by that we swam in and I saw a snake there. There were also lots of storks, in nests built on the tops of the buildings. And birds of prey…one used to attack the hang gliders as they crossed a pass.
Fabulous memory, thanks for sharing!
I enjoyed your evocative descriptions. Thanks for sharing this memory!
I’m in Vetiverus from Spanish perfumer Oliver Valverde. I love it, and it’s nice to see that it is still available (Valverde has had several business changes to his perfume line).
Happy Friday, my fragrant pals!
Twins! And yes, you’re absolutely spot on on both counts: Vetiverus is indeed something quite special. And Mr. Valverde really seems to have difficulty in making up his mind – recalling the scents from the usual distribution channels to sell only via his website, packing everything up to relocate (to Berlin, wasn’t it?), not moving after all, changing the brand name to Avant-Garden Lab, changing the bottles and packaging, closing the whole shipping operation down to rebrand (after the new bottles were already in place, I think), relaunching the brand this autumn with basically the same stuff … and all this to have yet another clearance sale right now, so that he can bring in yet another type of packaging. I really makes one feel quite dizzy!
Yay, my fragrance twin! I did not muster up enough effort to write up the history of this fragrance house, as you did. It does make one dizzy even reading it. Every time he tries something new, I keep my fingers crossed that it sticks and brings him success.
Like you, I have the Oliver & Co. version.
Drew a blank with the CP today. But the queen of all chypres, Mitsouko, was calling my name.
Can you ever really go wrong with Mitsouko, though?
I’m sure we’ll find you a rationale … maybe the fact that – if you don’t count China, whose output seems to dwarf anyone else – Spain is the world’s next-largest producer of peaches!
Plus, if Mitsouko is what you’d wear on a vacation in Spain, then points !
I chose a saffron scent again today, this time i wore Felanilla, which really starts with a hyperrealistic saffron note, reminding my of the old fashioned skin-coloured band-aids (Leukoplast in Germany)…. Today my practice was swamped in patients, so i hope for a quiet weekend plus a visit to the Christkindlmarkt in my smallish town in Baden-Württemberg. I hope they sell some Blond Angel, a hot eggnogg-and-white wine drink i really like.
Fingers crossed for that quiet weekend!
Posting and running on a busy day. Just now drinking my first cup of joe. Wearing Ginger Biscuit because it was the easiest to access as I was headed out! Happy friYAY!
Hope it is a good day Deva!
Totally forgot the CP! Wearing Tempte de Automne instead. Soothing sandalwood..
Soothing sandalwood sounds awfully nice.
Today I have layered CJ Scents Pumpkin’s Night Out and Pumpkin Tobacco. 🎃
I’ve never smelled them but I like the idea!
This is a stretch, but think I’m in compliance-Prada Cuir Ambre, which was made and distributed by Puig, which is a Spanish company, I love that Hilary Mantle went on the record, more than once, and said this was her signature scent 🙂
Stretching is allowed! And if Hilary Mantel wore it, it must earn points, right?
I sprayed liberal amounts of SL’s Fleurs d’Oranger last night and it’s still going strong on my clothes.
I might wear 24 Faubourg today, continuing my orange blossom interpretation of the CP. I have more orange blossom and neroli perfumes than I realised.
I have quite a few too and wish I’d brought more with me.
I decided on Ramón Monegal Cuirelle. Happy Friday!!
Ramón Monegal has made a decent showing today 🙂
Happy Friday cazaubon!
Just like tulipani, I’m in Vetiverus by Oliver&Co. (i. e. from a time when that was still what the brand was called) – quite a unique take on Vetiver that pairs the note with osmanthus and clove.
That does sound really nice, and I don’t know the brand at all.
Pears, banana and yogurt smoothie
A balmy day, sunny all day which improved my mood considerably in spite of lack of sleep. Today Flower by Alberto Morillas and continuing in the Spanish vein tonight it’s Embrujo de Sevilla EDT which is a rare beauty, I also have 20ml of the extrait but it’s sealed, probably my rarest perfume.
Lack of sleep twins today. 😪🥱😫
If a perfume is very rare for you, it absolutely is a Perfume Unicorn.
You have a lot to deal with and I have stopped a medication which made me sleep. Hope you had a really good night.
Yes, Embrujo de Sevilla is quite legendary I think.
Going for CP points in Sonoma Scent Studio’s Nostalgie. I was casting about for something in my collection that might evoke Don Quixote, whose mad, yet appealing and nostalgic, fascination with impossible ideals from an older time drove him on his epic adventures! I can only read Don Quixote in English, and that makes me one of millions from all cultures who have been touched by this great work of Miguel de Cervantes.
SSS Nostalgie is beautiful.
It was another one of my blind buy successes. 🙂
I blind bought it as well!
You smell amazing!!! I was one of the testers for that beauty from Laurie Erickson
What a fun fact! And, it seems like one you’d like – so thank you for helping it get out there!
I was going to wear one of Alberto Morillas’ scents for today’s cp – he seems to be a favorite perfumer of mine as I have and love many of his creations – but someone posted earlier this week they wore Maja, and I remembered I had a bottle of this I haven’t worn in ages so that’s my choice for today. I thought I remembered it as lavender-heavy but looking up the notes I see it’s a mélange of notes with a bit of spice, and I would agree. No one note stands out for me and the undercurrent is softly spicy. I’m finding it quite pleasant.
I was fortunate to spend one Christmas 17 years ago in Barcelona with my son and DIL and her parents and have wonderful fond memories. Beautiful weather, great food, loved the basilica, spent a warm, sunny Christmas Day in the Gaudí park, and visited the historical perfume museum (a must for all NST’ers if you visit the city!). I’d definitely return if I could!
After a very dismal gray week we’re finally having a couple of warm 🌞 days – much needed, it was getting depressing. A quiet weekend ahead, no plans except hoping to finish my inside decorating, the outside is done. It’s like greeting old friends as I pull out what were treasured hand-made gifts from loved ones who are no longer here, and the Nativity set from my childhood brings back happy memories.
Wishing everyone a lovely weekend ahead – and Happy Hanukkah to those who celebrate. ☮️
Gaudi – amazing wasn’t he?
16 Septembers ago my sister and I went to spread my brother in laws ashes in Sicily and then traveled to Barcelona to visit anything Gaudi, plus the monestary above the city. It was her birthday.
So it was a bitter and sweet journey.
SOTD is Les Immondables Vanille Havana as I was in the mood.
I would go back to Barcelona in a heartbeat! Such a great city.
Happy Friday, all. I’m currently commando for a consultation with an orthpedic surgeon for my next scary step in life, but I’ll be joining the waftings in Seville A l’Aube later today.
I hope the consultation went well.
Wow, that is a big step. Best of luck!
Only a little bit of crying in the parking lot afterwards. *Eyeroll emoji*
Better that you let out the emotion instead of bottling it up.
Sorry Isabella! You’re allowed a good cry I’m sure.
Wearing Slowdive today for points. Thank you to Glannys for doing all the research and providing the detailed notes earlier this week for the CP.
It’s sunny outside, so it’s a bit colder than it has been. Perfect conditions for Slowdive as it’s creating a nice cocoon around me.
Sunny here too, but warmer than it has been. Definitely appreciated that combo!
It’s so nice to see the ☀! Such a mood-lifter. Glad you had sun and warmer temps!
I’m wearing Aloha Tiare but it’s swallowing me up today, so I will probably change to something else. I don’t think I have anything that suits the CP, my perfume wardrobe is limited. Maybe Orange Sanguine, when I think of Spain blood oranges come to mind.
That works! Anything works, it’s pretty open ended.
When I was younger, my grandmother gave me a pin from Toledo, Spain so I’m wearing DSH Fumee D’Or since it is supposed to evoke a metalsmith and Toledo is known for jewelry and swords
I love that idea, plus you smell great.
Finally put on some perfume this afternoon–Soivohle Moroccan Orange. OK, it is named *Moroccan* Orange, but then Morocco is separated from Spain only by the Strait of Gibraltar, and besides, there are plenty of oranges in Spain, so I claim CP points anyway.
I have had a frustrating couple of days, but am hoping it is better from now on. I finally conceded that I needed a new phone, as the old one was no longer supported, I couldn’t download apps, and the battery life was pathetic. I ordered a new phone, which was delivered to my house Wednesday. Long story short, the carrier screwed things up royally. I spent at least 6 hours over the past two evenings trying to get the new phone set up, with no luck. Two different chat sessions ended with the agent disconnecting me without resolving anything. I then tried calling them, and ended up spending several hours over two evenings, in numerous phone calls, talking over a bad connection to someone probably on the other side of the Earth, going around in circles while they did the same things or instructed me to do the same things over and over again. I was told repeatedly that the issue was “resolved” and that the phone was “activated”, but I still couldn’t make any phone calls or access the internet without Wi-Fi (which meant I would not be able to use the GPS). I finally had had enough, so today I went to the Verizon store and just got a(nother) new phone, with a new number, with no connection to the previous carrier at all. It works fine, as it should, and it only took about 5 minutes in the store to set it up.
Fortunately, neither phone was expensive as such things go, only about $150 each, so I am not out a whole lot of money, but still I am hoping I can somehow sent the one phone back for a refund, since the carrier was unable to get it set up properly. Incidentally, I did get the first new phone to work by doing precisely the thing I had been told not to do–I swapped the SIM cards between it and the old, worn out phone. So for now at least, I have two working phones. I am concerned that my old carrier may figure out what I have done and disable the one phone, but maybe I can at least use up the data I have already paid for, and get all my accounts updated to the new phone number, before that happens.
Gosh, what a pain! Those kinds of customer service nightmares are beyond frustrating.
Good luck, hope you can get your money back from the non-working phone.
This is really frustrating but I am glad you got service with a second phone. Switching phones with the same carrier frustrates me as well so my sister, BIL and I trek out to the carrier’s storefront and switch out right in front of them, even if we have to stay there for several hours.
What a nightmare – that event of a phone (I won’t say customer service) representative just disconnecting when what they say does not work is a story I’ve heard before. Glad you got it to work!
Completely commando today. Not even scented lotion.
I slept badly last night. Nerves/anxiety. Not up to anything scented.
I had a contractor and a junk removal service coming this morning, and both of them were early. As in, before the scheduled service windows. I wasn’t quite functioning on all cylinders and as a result, some of the stuff that should have been picked up was missed. I did get in touch with the junk removal service, and they will be back either Monday or Tuesday.
Ugh.. that stinks. They should have called you when they were on the way over.
I know this is rough for you. I hope things will run smoothly and you can get a good night’s sleep.
Oh, the contractor DID call on the way. His work was outside, but he needed access to the circuit breakers. That wasn’t a problem.
What I wasn’t expecting was the junk removal people to show up as early as they did. So I was trying to show them all the stuff that needed to go while keeping an eye on Teflon kitty.
Sending 🤗 🤗 🤗
Thanks Laila!
Hope you get better sleep tonight
Thank you CM8!
Hope you have a better night tonight!
Thanks cazaubon!
Oy! I feel like you’re checking things off your list even if timing was not perfect. Go you!
Thank you hajusuuri! Rolling with the punches as best I can.
I keep telling myself: Fall down 7 times, get up 8.
I am seeing this Saturday, I hope you slept better last night. Hugs!
Thanks ringthing! I crashed HARD last night. Didn’t get out of bed until noon today. I feel human today!
Late to the Spanish fiesta, I’m also wearing Seville l’Aube today. Off to read the comments, happy Friday everyone.
The Spanish fiesta runs late, not to worry 🙂
Like many I saved Seville a L’Aube for today. Our extremely rainy week has cleared up for at least today so I’ve enjoyed blue skies, clouds, and sun, which makes for a great Friday gift. I feel better than I have in days and am so relieved to not be plagued by sinus pain. I even got a walk in yesterday evening. Looking forward to having a three day weekend since I took Monday off even if it is supposed to rain all day tomorrow and Sunday.
Glad you got a break from the rain. ☔
I’m working until 12:30 a.m again. A lady brought her big dog in, let it chew up some dog toys and then didn’t buy them.
I’m wearing Belle D’Opium for Alberto Morillas. I’m glad someone here mentioned him earlier in the week, because I didn’t know what to pick for today.
Oooooooooof. We can be tired together.
Yikes!!! Hope you get through the rest of the night unscathed
Ugh. Hope you can get some rest!
Oy! I’m still up because I usually am but also I am winding down from just coming back from a wedding reception.
The things you see, lillyjo…
Hang in there lillyjo, people are just nuts.
PSA-It appears that Shalimar MI is back on the Guerlain website again and in stock again and no I did not buy a fourth bottle.
🤣🤣🤣
Of course none of us would judge you if you did😁
I may judge you if you did 🤣🤣🤣
Paco Rabanne Calandre
Always reminds me of the MTA strike in NYC and my mom and I walked over the 59th Street Bridge…she got to work and I got to High School of Performing Arts (it inspired the movie Fame). We shared a bottle of Calandre at that time
Great story! 🙂
My mom was like your mom….she inspired and enabled my perfume addiction from the time I was three years old
Great SOTD!
Late and wishing I had a bottle of Seville à L’Aube. Instead, I’m joining the Zara crowd and wearing Livre Blanc😊
Don’t worry allo, I wish I had some of those fun Zara scents! The grass is always greener…
Superduper late! I got back from the wedding an hour ago!
SOTD = Love, by Kilian, don’t be shy Extreme
I braved it and went 4 sprays and did not hear one peep from anybody! No IG post though, so instead, you can follow along with my Lego x Marvel Advent Calendar. I don’t quite have a clue on the characters / creatures / items but perhaps all will be made clear once we’re more than half way into the month 🤷🏻♀️.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0nlI2TOWXq/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
I’ll talk about the wedding and wedding reception some other time soon. Suffice it to say, I had a great time!
So glad it was fun!
It makes me happy to think of you being highly perfumed at a joyful wedding!
Very pleased to hear that you had a great time at the wedding and “wafted your way”!
Catching up on the week as I drink my Saturday AM coffee. Didn’t have time to post Friday, but did start my morning off in Safran Troublant for CP points. In the evening, added some Confessions of a Garden Gnome (which appears up be discontinued).
Went to a holiday music show last night with friends, preceded by Mexican food and margaritas. A great Friday to conclude a busy week!