I had a very cool birthday dinner with my friends tonight. It was a bit of a last-minute thing, but we still got the gang together. I would’ve been content relaxing at home by myself, but, knowing my friends, they wouldn’t let me spend my birthday alone, let alone my 30th birthday.
We went to Big Time Pizza, my favorite pizza joint on this side of the lake, and pretty much gorged ourselves on pizza, beer, and dessert. We originally ordered 2 small pizzas and a large, but the kitchen accidentally made 3 smalls. The large pizza eventually showed up, so we ended up getting 4 pizzas. Also, the restaurant gave us 2 desserts – a banana split with walnuts and a strawberry shortcake – as part of my birthday celebration. To takes things up yet another notch, Janet got a very tasty ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins. It was mint chocolate chip ice cream on a chocolate cake, my favorite combo. And, of course, we had a couple of pitchers of Mac and Jack’s. Can’t have a dinner without beer.
In addition to all the food and beer, Tim got me Byrne’s Complete Book of Pool Shots. The book contains “350 moves every player should know”. Looks like I have my work cut out for me as I make my through the book and practice the shots at work.
I am now extremely full and extremely happy from my birthday dinner. I don’t think I’ll be having pizza and beer for some time, and I also have half of an ice cream cake in my freezer that should hold me over for desserts for a while. I also had a great time hanging out with my friends for my 30th. Fun conversation and good times as usual.
Really the only thing missing was Mei. Crossing an ocean is sort of a long trip, so I can understand that it would be hard for Mei to make it to my birthday dinner. Also, we only gave about 6 hours’ notice. Tough to travel over the Pacific in that short amount of time. ;)
Anyway, as can be expected, I got some pics from tonight’s dinner. I only brought my dinky Canon SD10 and I forgot to turn on the flash in the low light, so the pics are bit noisy and/or blurry. Then again, it pretty much syncs up with what we were seeing after all the beer and food we had. You can view the whole set over at my Flickr photostream.
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