My sister Susan - seen in the photograph on the left - and I decided to celebrate our birthdays Wednesday night at Shells and Sauce, an Italian restaurant just east of the Denver Botanic Gardens. It is a cozy neighborhood joint with great food, and the portions are pretty damn generous, too. The meatballs are about the size of basketballs, and they even gave us a free dessert in honor of our birthdays. The service was also very good, and I heartily recommend Shells and Sauce for your next dinner out, even if you happen to live in someplace like Sicily. It'll be worth the drive.
The only downside to the evening was that it had been snowing non-stop for the past 24 hours, and the roads were horrible. Fortunately, I found a parking spot just down the street from the restaurant, and I took the photograph on the right of the Winter Wonderland that was Denver this past Wednesday night as we were going inside. Denver had another fairly large snowstorm at the end of December, and the city received a lot of criticism for it's policy of not plowing the side streets, resulting in touch and go driving for about two weeks. This time around they decided that they would indeed plow the side streets, making them marginally better. Amazing what an upcoming mayoral election can do to light a fire under elected officials.
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