Date Night

Ann, Sadie and I were in Concord yesterday to visit with Nana and Bob-Bob and a whole bunch of cousins (you can read all about it on the baby blog). My parents were nice enough to babysit Sadie, so Ann and I had a rare date night. We wanted to see Borat, but unfortunately it was only playing in Hooksett at inconvenient times. Ann had read in the Ale Street News that Penuche's in Concord had refocused on beer and, more importantly, became no smoking. It still has a nondescript windowless door to get downstairs, and still smells like stale smoke, but at least there is no fresh smoke. They have the best beer list I've seen in NH, including a couple Belgians (Duvel, Affligem and Lindemans), and very cheap prices - a bottle of Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA was only $4, and Spaten Octoberfest was only $3. Pretty sweet jukebox too - lots of Phish, Dead and Widespread. A good place to hang out if you are in or around Concord - much better than the Barley House.

As we were getting ready to leave, this band Otherwise showed up. They had more equipment than any other bar band that I have ever seen - huge loudspeakers, a DJ with two turntables (no microphone), a keyboardist with a vintage Hammond Organ and 3 other keyboards. I asked the keyboardist what kind of music they played. He says "It's kind of reggae, electronic, some originals, kinda jammy." After hearing that, Ann and I really wanted to stay, but unfortunately, we had to leave.