Dining in the dark

I was a little lazy about posting the last two weeks, so time to update on a few happenings.

Last weekend all the associates in the office went to this restaurant that does dining in the dark, and it's basically exactly what it sounds like. After rounding up your group, they have you stand in single file with your hand on the person in front of you's shoulder, then they lead you past a series of thick drapes into a completely dark room. And when I say completely dark I mean COMPLETELY dark - I couldn't see anything. As a matter of fact it was weird because I kept kind of seeing things, kinda like when you close your eyes and you can kind of see little bits of color, but nothing was actually there. Hard to explain.

Anyways, they then proceeded to serve us a 3 course dinner. All the waiters at the restaurant are actually legally blind, so they are much more comfortable walking around with plates of food in a pitch black room - so that was a cool twist. The point is supposed to be that you focus more on the food and appreciate it more when you aren't distracted by what you're eyes are seeing, but I think it may have just distracted me more with what my eyes weren't seeing. It's also quite difficult to eat things off a plate when you can't see them, as you might imagine. It was a cool experience, though probably not something I would go out of my way to do often again.

After that we all went out to a club in Amsterdam. It's set in an old newspaper factory, so it was basically a huge warehouse, with random printing presses and other printing materials strewn about. It was also the first club I've ever been to that said I was dressed too nice to get in - this is definitely not New York...

All in all a good weekend.