Bday part 2

So we ended up going to this new brewpub/pizza, I mean brewpub/flatbread place up the street for dinner. They make wood fire oven thin crust pizzas (that they call flatbreads) that were really, really good. I'm not really supposed to eat pizza with the whole watching the blood sugars thing, so if I do I want it to be really worth it. This was really worth it. Z. got a plain tomato sauce and cheese (made up by taking the basic pizza that you add your own toppings to, just not adding any toppings- the check called it a Lil' Joe). We got the flatbread special of the night, it had asiago and mozzarella cheese, spinach, pine nuts, caramelized onions and nitrate free sausage. To die for really, it was that good. A. also ordered a house salad which I helped him eat a bit of, various lettuces with dried cranberries, nuts (pecans I think), pears and goat cheese. Yum! A. had one of the house brewed beers and I had a glass of wine (which has made me really sleepy which is why I am at the computer right now, hoping to stay awake a bit longer). We sat in the room with the wood fire oven which was nice to look at and kept us warm, it's really cold out tonight and there was a bit of a draft coming through the front windows.

At home we had cake! Z. had the cupcake, and A. and I split the coconut cake. We're saving the cake with the flower for tomorrow night. They were so good, we love and miss Isgro's (although like the cheese, it's better we don't live so close anymore). Then I opened up my presents. Z. gave me a small embroidered zippered bag from Peru and a little ceramic Pokemon figure she made in ceramics at school (a Jigglypuff). A. gave me three pairs of earrings, a gorgeous alpaca scarf (also from Peru), a small bar of dark chocolate, a mug from Nepal, and two books (a novel and a cookbook).

A very contended birthday :-)