On Saturday, the Houston Area Kossacks held our seventh meet-up. This time, we met at Mai's, a lovely Vietnamese restaurant in Midtown. And we weren't disappointed. For all you food porn lovers, here's a sample of what we experienced at Mai's:
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And I don't know what most of that stuff is, so I'm not going to attempt to caption it. But doesn't it look pretty?
As for me, I stuck with my usual: pho ga, or chicken pho.
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Now, if you've gotten your fill of food porn, follow me below the fold for what you really came to see.
This was one of our smaller meet-ups, since a number of people were out of town or had other obligations. We missed seeing some of our regular faces, but we're hoping to remedy that with our June meet-up! Those of us who attended had a great time.
Here are Texdude50 and his partner icelus:
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And Counselor730:
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And suesue and Mr. suesue:
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Did I mention that we were also celebrating suesue's birthday (a bit early)? Here she is with cosette and the lovely flowers cosette got her:
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And, finally, cosette and your humble diarist (cosette in her Daily Kos orange and me in my "ermahgerd" shirt LOL):
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Our next meet-up will be in June--details to follow in the very near future, so stay tuned! We hope to see some new faces in June, so if you're a Houstonian and haven't been to one of our meet-ups yet, please try to come! Also, if you haven't joined the Houston Area Kossacks group, feel free to send me a Kosmail to request to join. We do all of our communication via e-mail, however, so please also include an e-mail address so we can keep you in the loop!