We had a lovely power-free Shabbat evening (violated only to take these pictures at the end)...



playing games with a necklace chain making shapes for others to guess...



and drinking Chicagos--a drink of brandy, triple sec (replaced here with homemade kumquat liqueur), bitters, and champagne:



I'm afraid I had enough Chicago in me that by the end I started being very, very sacrilegious and singing "Barack Obama" instead of "Baruch atah..."