'Twas my birfday

why the weird title? i really don't know.

Yesterday was my birthday! I am now 25. No, I don't feel different.

To start my day, I did what I do everyday... I took Duncan for a walk! Most people would think that is a terrible way to start off your birthday, but I like walking with Duncan. Especially when the weather is nice, and the weather was nice! The sun was even out!

Then I got ready to go to lunch with Janice! We went to a place called noodle. It was fun! We each tried some asian noodles with a sauce we have never heard of. Anyone know what saté is? Anyway, we had some egg rolls too, yum.

Then we did some shopping! I've been wanting to get an apron ever since I started deep frying things, and making homemade cookies, dough, and biscuits. So I got one! And I replaced our oven mitts, because the old ones were getting pretty ugly. I'm enjoying the colorfulness of them. Most things in our apartment are black or white or wood. I'd love to paint the walls but David thinks we'll have to paint it white again before we leave. ?? Oh well. The plan isn't to be here so long that I can't live with white walls!

Janice also got me a little gift. She's been doing a lot of cross-stitching and she bought me a small one to try. I think it will be perfect to cross-stitch a baby's name onto the side of this one day:
Isn't he cute? So, at first the directions were really overwhelming, but then I read them :o) And it wasn't too bad. This is all I've done so far.And I'm going to wait to continue until I ask Janice some other questions. I think it will be fun. I've got lots of things to do now, between scrap booking, cross-stitching, the dog, english lessons, and my other everyday stuff. I can't wait to add going outside in the sunshine to that list.

So after shopping we went to the grocery store, did some shopping, and then parted ways. I went home and played with the beast (this is what David calls Duncan). And started my cross-stitch, and tried to trick David into telling me what we'd be doing that evening. I was almost successful!

Eventually, David came home and told me what we would be doing, then where we would be going and to go put on nicer clothes. Then we took a picture so that everyone could see what we looked like on my 25th birthday. About the same, huh? (this is not meant to be an opportunity for you to make one of your comments Matthew! :oP ) We decided to take a picture in front of our map...but we failed to center it properly - sorry Mom! You taught me better than that. :o)

Off to the restaurant! Thierry Saveur et Cuisine (You can even view the site in English)
The atmosphere was really cool. Fancy, gormet, and we were the first people there for the evening so we had 3 people serving us. They must have been bored because they were always looking over at us to see if we needed anything.

I didn't bring my camera but you can see what it was like at the website. I did find this picture on there. This is a small view of the exact table that we sat at. I thought it was neat that it was one of the pictures on the site. We ordered a 3 course meal (menu) and everything came out to us looking beautiful. This is another one of those restaurants were the food is more or a decoration for your plate. But I'm impressed with how it can look so good and taste great too. I guess I just never went to restaurants like this at home. Or else the places we went always served so much food that there was no room for decorating. We didn't leave stuffed, but just full enough. That should be more of a habit for us. We can seriously put some food away when we want to!

Our appetizers was beef and foie gras made into a loaf thingie with some sauces around it. yummy. The main course was sole (fish) and calamari with rice and some other sauces... I think one was called dog sauce (sauce chien)! And for dessert we had french toast! It was not the French toast you are invisioning. It was fancy. Served with apples and a little melted ice cream (which I think was a huge mistake! There should have been a nice scoop of ice cream right on top instead!) But it was still really yummy, and now we can say we've had real french toast.

That's about all that happened on March 3, 2009!