LUPS = Lawrenceville United Progressive Supper. LUPS is an annual highlight of our new neighborhood. It started about 10 years ago as a small group of neighbors who wanted to see each others' houses as they were doing massive remodeling to their turn of the century row houses. Since then it has grown to be over 100 people, and is quite the event. This year's dinner was this past Saturday on a beautiful fall night. We started out with appetizers at a Middle Eastern-styled coffee shop down the hill from us, and then all moved in well-coordinated fashion to different homes for soup, salad, and entree courses with groups of 8-10 other Lawrencevillians (my term!). I was amazed at how well coordinated it was, and glad too, since I volunteered to help coordinate next year's LUPS without even having experienced this one yet.
We hosted a soup course, and while our house wasn't decked out with festive fall decor, we didn't splurge on expensive wine (or any alcohol at all), and Ryan and I were somewhat under-dressed, we still had a great time. I made a no-fail Annabel soup, we had yummy hot apple cider, and even Sadie did ok in her crate with all the commotion. We love our neighborhood and that it has cool stuff like this that helps us get to know our neighbors.
And now for a cute Sadie picture:
She loves peanut butter. One of our neighbors even gave us an "empty" peanut butter container.
"Look, ma! No paws!"
