friday night.

on wednesday, the élever group was supposed to have a teleconference, but dan got called away to another meeting unexpectedly. instead claudine and i met up on friday for a happy hour at the wine bar. dan had stayed home with sarah since he and claudine didn't have a babysitter. the group was much smaller than usual, so we were both a little disappointed. we caught up on girl talk and set forth another plan of action for the next week. after a couple of glasses of wine, we headed to sonoma on brookside since we were both starving. we enjoyed another glass of wine and a dinner of chicken and avocado with sweet potato fries, all the while discussing business and what we would like to do for a launch party. we also have several prospective clients interested in their own launch parties, and we discussed ideas for that as well. it shouldn't be long before this puppy is up and running!

we thought about going out for an evening on the town, but by this point, it was already 10:00 and it had begun to downpour outside. sarah (claudine's daughter) called several different times concerned for claudine's saftey, so we decided to call it a night. she had only a few blocks to go, while i had the drive back to muskogee. when i got back, travis had already left the pool hall for the night and was at the house. we decided to call it a night, too, and each headed to bed for a good night's rest.