Latke Party

Last Friday night, to celebrate the last night of Chanukah, we headed over to Rachel and Adam's apartment for a latkes-and-dreidel party. We met some new people, enjoyed delicious potato and potato-and-zucchini latkes, and played "aggressive" dreidel with fine Polish vodka and French candies.

Sides for the latkes included smoked salmon, herring, cucumber salad, and apple sauce. Quite a spread!

Lighting the Chanukah candles. As usual, there was some disagreement about whether to light left-to-right or vice versa. And as usual, left-to-right won out. I look on as Adam lights and Debbie sings.

Post-dinner dreidel fun with Fabien, Adam, and Adam's brother Josh.

Lizzie looks on with apprehension as Rachel manifests drunky-drunkness.

In our game, Lindt truffles were worth "3" and were highly coveted. The game broke down when people hoarded and then not-so-surreptitiously consumed all the truffles.

Thanks for having us over, Rachel and Adam!