Birthday Celebrations

This past weekend was my birthday - and it was a good one. My past few birthday have been big "going out" events involving getting dressed up and heading to our favorite bars in either East Lansing or Royal Oak. This birthday was different and I definitely enjoyed the change.

Saturday, Laurissa arranged for us to all (myself, Laurissa, Jimmy, Karl, Dave and Alyse) to go to dinner at Port 305 in Quincy. She picked Port 305 because she knows the beach and ocean are my favorite place and this restaurant overlooks just that. Before dinner, we went for a short walk to the beach where we admired the view of the Boston skyline. While on the walk, Alyse pulled out some fantastic pink, sparkly party hats that read "Party Princess" and some glowsticks. I think the best part of this whole affair was that Karl was excited to put one on and wore it the whole time. Don't let the picture below fool you, he was mostly smiles.

After our walk we met up with Glines and got dinner and drinks. Port 305's cocktails were amazing. I don't care if martinis are girly drinks, they're delicious (and Glines ordered a hurricane, so...). The food was really good too, but the view was my favorite part.

Sunday was my actual birthday and it started off perfectly. Homemade breakfast rolls by Laurissa and mimosas. Everyone came over and we continued with some day-drinking before we headed to a "Guac Off" in Davis Square.

If you know me, you know that guacamole/avocados make the cut for my top five favorite foods. So a guac off on my birthday could not have been better planned - and it was free. The Painted Burro hosted it and in addition to trying all of the guac, we tasted a few delicious margaritas as well.

After spending the beautiful afternoon walking around exploring Davis Square, Jimmy, Karl, Laurissa and I went to grab dinner on the roof deck at Daedalus. Again, my favorite part of this was the view - being able to see out over all of Harvard Square and parts of Cambridge. I said I liked being outside in nature too and was quickly told that it didn't count as nature. I still disagree with this because I had three whole trees in my line of vision...

Finally, Monday at work, after a sort of failed team outing. I was surprised with delicious cannolis from Mike's Pastry.

All in all, an awesome birthday weekend! And I am so looking forward to this weekend in Michigan!