Fancy Pants at La Boite en Bois

Last night was Fancy Pants Night ... so we got all prettified and dressed up - I bought a super cute black velvet dress and some just as cute black flats that looked like real ballet shoes and felt very girly - and off we went to see The Nutcracker at the NYC Ballet - beautiful, beautiful, the snowflake fairies in the forest with the snow falling was my favorite part - we also enjoyed a glass of champagne during intermission and then headed over in the freezing cold cold night to La Boite en Bois - a fantasticly delicious but tiny French restaurant where we enjoyed a great bottle of chardonnay, duck liver pate (my first taste of aspic, which I loved, it was like intensely chickeny flavored hard jello), poulet, salmon, and mignonette with cognac sauce - plus our waiter - who seemed to be the manager or maitre d' - took a liking to us and when we ordered a creme brulee to share, brought us some apple tart with homemade vanilla ice cream because that was his favorite and he hoped it would make us come back - and we will!! And that was Fancy Pants Night, until the next Fancy event should strike our fancy!