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04/23/05 - San Francisco, CA (Photos)

A night of German food and karaoke, to celebrate Dylan's birthday

 

Leandra planned a big night out for Dylan's birthday (Dylan & Leandra being our current kindly hosts).  This is no big surprise to anyone who knows Leandra - big night planner extraordinaire.  We started out with dinner at Suppenkuche, where Caroline was quite skeptical she could find any German cuisine that she actually liked.  It turned out to be the best food we had in San Francisco - they make a mean spatzel and grill a nice pig!  We followed up dinner by heading over to our private karaoke room at Do Re Me over in Japantown.  Dylan performed a rollicking version of Sweet Child o' Mine, Caroline sang more than Scott's ever heard her sing in his life, and the whole group put on a rousing performance of Don't Stop Believing that would have made Journey quite proud.  Leandra stole the show, of course, with her various renditions of Celine's Heart Must Go On (Leandra - ignore those people throwing things at you - they're just jealous Dion haytas), although Ted's spoken word version of Kiss was quite a hit. 

 

We also got to experience our first police raid at a karaoke club.  It's not a bar, just private karaoke rooms, so people bring their own bottled singing encouragement along.  This is apparently illegal, and one of the kids running the place that night ran in to help us scoop all the beer and wine into a garbage bag so he could dispose of it.  Somehow, we never saw our booze again, and we were sad.  Back to the MacDonalds for frozen pizza and some more stage time for Caroline, so she could get some of the Afternoon Delight out of her system.  Thanks to the MacDonalds for planning yet another fun night out.