Beautiful weather and good food: what’s there to NOT like about this afternoon?

A friend is relocating in search of a job environment that will properly respect her newly minted PhD, so I invited her to my neighborhood and took her out to a celebratory goodbye lunch. A 15 minute walk in the sun ended with this glorious reward.

Chips and salsa with Mexican Coke. It is made with real sugar, not high fructose corn syrup.
Chips and salsa with Mexican Coke. The soda is made with real sugar, not high fructose corn syrup. That may be why it was deliciously light on my tongue and didn’t leave me thirsty.
Poblano Mole. There was chocolate on my chicken, and it was DIVINE!
Poblano Mole. There was chocolate on my chicken, and it was DIVINE!