They Say It's Your Birthday, It's My Birthday Too, Yeah!

That's right, today is my birthday. In fact, it's my 3rd 29th birthday today (hey look, I just admitted to my "real" age). When 29 began to loom on the horizon I decided to count 29th birthdays instead of adding a year as one traditionally does. Then yesterday (on the eve of my 3rd 29th birthday no less) Mike told me that I'm limited to 6 29th birthdays; after that I'm going to have to turn 30. The good news is that I will then get 6 30th birthdays, I mean heck, one can't be 29 forever, right? Today I am not (a) working or (2) cooking. So I thought that I would record of some of the things that others have cooked for me today.



For breakfast we went to Paramount, a regular haunt from my single-girl days. Paramount does breakfast all day long (which is particularly handy on the weekends) and they have a cool system for seating people (also handy on the weekends). At Paramount customers don't queue for seating, instead, you can't sit down until you have your food. That way you spend your time standing in line waiting to order and by the time you have your food there will be an empty table. It doesn't sound as though it would work, and I've spent much time watching for a failure in the system, but it does and the system has yet to break down.

Breakfast was was rather late and our dinner reservations are rather early (at the aptly named Ten Tables you take the reservation they give you), so we decided to skip lunch completely. But then the cake in the kitchen started to call my name and if you can't snack on cake on your birthday, when can you? So I decide to just test out the cake, candles and all. Turned out to be some good cake! I can't wait eat it again for breakfast tomorrow!





Well, it's almost time to get ready for dinner and it just doesn't seem right (despite the desire to add photos from the restaurant to this post) to bring my camera with me tonight. So I'll leave you with these photos from the day (so far). Tomorrow we are heading to Vermont for their Cheese Trail (so that I can turn my birthday into a two-day event). Those clever Vermonters have created their own version of a wine-tasting trail, but this one is centered around cheese! How smart is that?!?

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