Ellie and I just came back from Dinner and Drinks with some good friends of ours. We first decided to check out Ascada Bistro in Belllevue. The place was a major disappointment. The place itself is tiny and not in a 'cute neighborhood cafe' kind of way. Tiny in the 'jammed up like sardines in a can' kind of way. Our drink order took a painful amount of time to arrive (How hard can a diet coke, two beers and a margarita be?). Speaking of the margarita: half way through the painful 'drink wait' the bartender came over to ask about the drink Ellie had ordered. Somehow the waitress server had translated 'margarita' in 'mandarita'. The bartender was unfamilar with a 'mandarita'. Does it contain 'man' or 'mandarins' that was the question which troubled us all. Sounds either delicious, disgusting or both. The foods was serviceable - being neither fantastic or terrible. One of the food items was incorrect which lately, in Seattle, seems to be a common occurrence. Fortunately they take the Prime Card so it was nice and cheap. After dinner we headed to the pub (Three Lions in Redmond) for beer and dessert.

During the dinner conversation our friend, a marketer in the Vista team, told us of his new project. It's a viral video called Ballmer: Cultural Learnings of Vista for Make Benefit Glorious Company of Microsoft. The basic thrust of the video is that SteveB travels all over the world and interviews people (in rather unusual circumstances) about Windows Vista.