Fabers in Frisco: Annabel and The Fox and The Hound

No... sadly I'm not referring to the Disney film here. Yep, bad Mommy and Daddy took Annabel to a bar!

(Sweet Home Alabama, Touchstone Pictures/Pigeon Creek Films 2002)

Ok, so let me explain the sitch before you go all Pat Robertson on me. As you know, Chris and I are not big drinkers (not because we don't enjoy it... mostly because we're a couple of lightweights). But, every once in awhile, Chris's office will have a company happy hour to promote teamwork, good times and fun amongst the employees. So yesterday, they held one such happy hour (the first since Annabel was born) at The Fox and the Hound in Richardson in celebration of their upcoming move to a much larger office space. Annabel and I made an appearance, but since they allowed smoking in there, we didn't stay long. Just enough to be social! Everyone had a good time, though, as evidenced by these photos that Chris took...

That's Bobbie, me (with Annabel in her sling!) and Sue.

James, Chris, Nick, Jeff and Chris.

Some more of the guys... Ray, Sean, Mike, Don and Doyle.

Evidently there was a bachelorette party there (this happened after I left). Bobbing for apples... mmmmmm... humiliating...

Wait... how did this picture get on the camera? Ooooh... one of the other guys took it... thanks a lot, James! See what happens when I leave?? ;-)

I will say one thing for this place... even though there was some smoking in the place, when we left there, we didn't smell like a chimney. They must have some crazy ventilation going on in that bar! Usually I can't stand that about bars and often wish we would follow California's example and ban smoking inside all public facilities. But, since not all of Dallas has that policy, at least The Fox and the Hound in Richardson installed an excellent ventilation system that kept us from hacking our lungs out.

Afterwards, we took my cousin Kathryn to Brio in Allen for her birthday. We had been here once before (although Kathryn hadn't). And it was yummy as usual. I have to say that the staff there is unusually friendly and chatty. I mean, there's the typical comments, "Oh what a cute baby" or "Are you having a good birthday?" But these guys give you their life stories! Our hostess told us she wanted to go to school to be a neo-natal nurse, the manager was gushing about how he sampled some of the new items on the menu and our waiter would insert stories from his days in the Navy when he would catch snatches of our conversation. I'm not complaining... these were all really sweet people and we enjoyed chatting with them. We just thought it was funny how very friendly they were.

Annabel was great, both at the bar and at the restaurant. Noise doesn't faze her one bit, and she slept right through it all! Well, she did wake up once in awhile to check her environment, make sure Mommy and Daddy were still close by, and then went right back to sleep! Here are some more photos that Chris took.