whilst avoiding doing work...

i thought i'd update you on a restaurant discovery. its not new. its been around for five years, and a lot of people have been telling me to go, but i hadn't taken any of that advice until this past weekend.

Figo Pasta.

many people probably have been there before, but i went for the first time with arielle for dinner saturday night. it's fabulous. SO fabulous, in fact, that i took my mother, aunt, and 2 cousins there again last night.

for those of you who have never been, its italian, obviously. the general format is that you choose the type of pasta you want: ravioli, short pasta (penne, rigatoni, gnocchi, etc), or long pasta (linguine, fettuccine, etc). if you get long pasta, you have a choice between spinach noodles or egg noodles. the spinach noodles are extra wonderful.

then after choosing the pasta, you choose your sauce. when i went with arielle, i got the siciliana, which is eggplant, mozzarella cheeze, fresh basil (big leaves of it too. yum), and ricotta cheese (in big chunks) in a marinara sauce. last night, i got their gnocchi which is amazingggg in a marinara sauce that has lamb ragu, olives, and a type of rosemary cheese that i had never had before and don't remember the name of.

my mouth is watering just thinking about it.

oh and if you tell them you're a first time guest at figo (it might be different for different locations, of which there are 5... 6 soon), they bring you this FABULOUS tiramisu. think of the best tiramisu you've EVER had. its better than that.

yum.

k. now i should do some work so that i don't look like a fool during training tonight.

bummer.

so I vividly remember trying Google Maps a couple years ago. I put in my home address for the starting point and then London, UK for the destination.

and it was great. cause after the directions to the border, it said "swim _____ miles."

seriously.
it was HILARIOUS.

so, I told my mom and cousin Shannon today about it today, but they didn't believe me. I just tried it again.

it doesn't work anymore. :( :( :(

now it says the boring "we cannot provide driving directions between Lilburn, GA and London, UK" or something to that effect.

they should've just kept it for kicks. even if we didn't need Google Maps to get places, we would use it just to see "swim _____ miles."