The Birthday of Nel
Yesterday, we celebrated Nelson's birthday. Earlier this week, Paul and I brainstormed a little on what to do for Nelson. We kinda envisioned a rather nice dinner at Santana Row. Since I was in the area, I scoped out a few of the restaurants there. Maggiano's seemed fairly nice, but the only time available for the size of our group was 4pm and 10pm. What gives?? Apparently, we needed to put in a reservation a week in advance. hmmmppphhh. Next on the list was Strait's. They took 24 hour advance reservations, but for the group our size, we had to select from 4 set menus only. After eyeing the menu items (complete with fixings that I could not pronounce), I came to realize that each of the items would cost each person $40-50! I looked over the menu at The Citrus (at the lobby of the Valencia Hotel) and realized that $$$ was gonna be a bite in the book too.
I stopped walking and I called Paul for some ideas. He suggested Dave and Buster's. Not too bad I guess. The next day we did some leg work to get the gift and the cake and spot checked on ppl to make sure they knew where to go.
Paul and I got to D&B early to get a table. However, for a group our size the wait was gonna be an hour and a half @#$%@#^&*!!! They suggested the Show Room. I was desperate to not have people standing around. The down side of this was that it happened to be karaoke night. I'd be ok with that if the singers were just halfway decent. However some of the people there were terrible. I mean some of them sounded *ShRIlL!!!* And this is to say nothing of us sitting right in front of the speakers! argh..this did not at all pan out how we envisioned it. I envisioned more of a stately dinner.
Anyhow, I suggested to Paul that we have the cake at his house instead. He gladly agreed. So I yanked the cake from the D&B fridge while Paul directed ppl to his place. The rest of the night was rather serene (thank goodness) as we had cake and played some games.
As it turned out, Nelson was really nervous that we were gonna make him sing. I'd never do that to Nel though ;-) Anyhow, Happy Birthday, Nel. Hope you like IKEA.
Yesterday, we celebrated Nelson's birthday. Earlier this week, Paul and I brainstormed a little on what to do for Nelson. We kinda envisioned a rather nice dinner at Santana Row. Since I was in the area, I scoped out a few of the restaurants there. Maggiano's seemed fairly nice, but the only time available for the size of our group was 4pm and 10pm. What gives?? Apparently, we needed to put in a reservation a week in advance. hmmmppphhh. Next on the list was Strait's. They took 24 hour advance reservations, but for the group our size, we had to select from 4 set menus only. After eyeing the menu items (complete with fixings that I could not pronounce), I came to realize that each of the items would cost each person $40-50! I looked over the menu at The Citrus (at the lobby of the Valencia Hotel) and realized that $$$ was gonna be a bite in the book too.
I stopped walking and I called Paul for some ideas. He suggested Dave and Buster's. Not too bad I guess. The next day we did some leg work to get the gift and the cake and spot checked on ppl to make sure they knew where to go.
Paul and I got to D&B early to get a table. However, for a group our size the wait was gonna be an hour and a half @#$%@#^&*!!! They suggested the Show Room. I was desperate to not have people standing around. The down side of this was that it happened to be karaoke night. I'd be ok with that if the singers were just halfway decent. However some of the people there were terrible. I mean some of them sounded *ShRIlL!!!* And this is to say nothing of us sitting right in front of the speakers! argh..this did not at all pan out how we envisioned it. I envisioned more of a stately dinner.
Anyhow, I suggested to Paul that we have the cake at his house instead. He gladly agreed. So I yanked the cake from the D&B fridge while Paul directed ppl to his place. The rest of the night was rather serene (thank goodness) as we had cake and played some games.
As it turned out, Nelson was really nervous that we were gonna make him sing. I'd never do that to Nel though ;-) Anyhow, Happy Birthday, Nel. Hope you like IKEA.
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