My 29th birthday

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

This is going to be a long post of pictures so I just wanted to make a note that I have posted a few times in the last few days so don't forget to continue to scroll down after the birthday post as there are some more fun pics :-)

Well I can't believe I am 29, one more year of being in my twenties, its crazy. This year my wonderful husband planned out a night of surprises, he told me that we had plans with our friends but he wouldn't tell me what we were doing. We got all ready, and then Alex, Alanna, Danny and Zai all met us at our place. Jared tells me that there will be three stops this evening so we are off to the first one....

We traveled down to the East Village area, an area we haven't been to much. We are walking and oops, we passed it, here it is a big black door with a pig on the front of it.

This is it, The Bourgeois Pig a French wine bar, wow how fun, that husband of mine sure does know what i like :-)

Its very cozy with nice ambient lighting, we had a very nice little spot in the back corner on some comfy sofas.

We all were red toned from the red light given off by the sign that you saw in the picture above

We ordered some nice pinot noir from France and some tasty white wine sangria, cheers!

We ordered this delicious plate of cheese called "The Pig" it is 10 different cheeses and they serve it with toasted bread, fruit, and some olives and peppers, yummy :-)

This was another dish we ordered, it is brie wrapped with filo dough and maple syrup, it was so tasty, we ate that up fast!

Danny and Zai, she ordered a banana and chocolate latte, looked so good!

Outside of The Bourgeois Pig...what a great little place, we had a really nice time. Now on to the next stop...

The "Flea Market Cafe" our main course of the evening, a french cafe, do we see the theme :-)

Alex and Alanna (with her pouty face)

Danny and Zai (with her sad face)

and Jon and Katie with happy faces :-) although I'm pretty sure everyone was happy :-)

Outside the Cafe... the food was quite good, I enjoyed this little place as well. So far 2 for 3, on to the next...

Well I just have to say that Jared actually had planned for us to go to a restaurant that had biegnets because he knows how much I love them, however when we got there, the man at the front was a real jerk and refused to sell us biegnets as they do not carry out well. He then preceded to tell us that the wait to sit was an hour and a half, and even after Jared explained that it was my birthday and we had planned to eat them right away, he told us that he didn't have a way to make them! So I guess that means even if you wait an hour and a half you can't have them? Well whatever we will never go there again obviously. So after that unfortunate event we needed to find another place for dessert. Wouldn't you know it we were right in the neighborhood of the Dessert Truck!

Check out the Menu and look at the date :-)

Its ok we didn't get biegnts, I am quite satisfied with my bread pudding :-)

The Dessert Truck is always good!

So after dessert Jon and Katie invited all of us back to their apartment to hang out. Jon was nice enough to get out his guitar and harmonica and play for us!

Here is Alanna and Danny, we were playing catch phrase, (which I am awful at) but it was still fun. Thank you Jon and Katie for inviting us over it was a perfect end to the evening. Also thank you to all our friends in joining us for this wonderful night out, I had a really great time, my first birthday in New York :-)