Fondue and Gaming Fundamentals

The weekend of March 9 started early in a two-part installment of awesomeness.

On Thursday three of my friends and I went to Ladies' Night Out at the Melting Pot.  The Melting Pot is a delicious fondue restaurant.  The special was a four-course meal.  The first course was a cheese fondue with a base of Sam Adams Boston Lager and lots of cheddar cheese layered in until it reached a level of warm, gooey perfection.  The second course was salad and shrimp cocktail.  The main course featured several different items for cooking, including chicken, shrimp and filet mignon.  One of the fun parts of dining at The Melting Pot is that it's a very interactive experience--you cook your own food and mix and match dipping sauces to your liking.  What starts out as a friendly meal spirals into search and rescue missions for lost potatoes in the fondue pot and battles for the last piece of chicken.  The dessert course was absolutely decadent--chocolate fondue swirled with caramel and crunchy peanut butter.  Heaven.

Mmmm, fondue!

On Friday night I went to Dave & Buster's with a group of friends.  Dave & Buster's is like a grown-up version of Chuck E. Cheese's [Author's Note: I can only assume this, seeing as I never went to Chuck E. Cheese's as a child.  Not even once.]  There's tons of classic arcade games, basketball and skeeball, as well as newer favorites like trivia games and Deal or No Deal.  And of course, you earn tickets to turn in for prizes.  We ended the night with a diner run.  It was a nice, simple, fun night out.