Dinner with the neighbors

We moved into our current place a few months ago. It’s a condo building, one apartment per floor, and we live on the top floor. We’ve recently become better friends with the downstairs neighbors, Dave and Danielle. They’re really nice, and it turns out we’re socially connected in at least a couple of unexpected ways.

They’re also about our age, only a little older, so it feels natural to be friends. In the past we’ve had nice neighbors but they were way older, so the friendship never took off.

A couple of nights ago we had Dave and Danielle over for dinner, and we had a great time. Alli made some tasty Creole chicken, some rotini with mushrooms and onions, and tasty olive-themed appetizers. Everything was delicious.

I picked a 2004 Stolpman syrah to go along with the food, and it was a good match. A little under-powered for the Creole chicken, but you can’t nail them all I suppose Or at least I’m not good enough to nail them all yet. The wine did get 95 points from the Wine Advocate, so it was worth a shot.