I celebrated my birthday this week, It was fantastic! It started out with a surprise dinner organized by Stan the night before, (he booked it clear in January). It was at a fancy restaurant called the Victorian in Albert Park, http://www.thevictorian.com.au/ (4 course degustation) overlooking the beach. He had paid in advance but a few things didn't work out according to plan. First since my birthday is now in the fall/ winter and day light savings happens in April; it gets dark around 5:00....so you couldn't really see the beach. Secondly, when we got to the restaurant it was CLOSED! The lights were out, the chairs were stacked up and there was a note on the door saying they were only taking reservations of parties with 15+ during the winter months!
We drove down to the next suburb (Saint Kilda), which is a very young and trendy part of town and got dinner at Mirka, a Guy Grossi Resturant- http://www.grossi.com.au The best part about eating there was that our waiter was British; so it seemed more formal than otherwise and our chef was french so when he brought us our dish (I guess the waiter was busy) he said something in french that sounded like the food would taste even better! THANK STAN!
The next day was my actual birthday. Thomas' school was doing an early mothers day celebration so we went into school an hour early 8:00 and got to do stations with our kids. There was a necklace station, a hand massage station, a coloring station etc... where the boys (it's an all boys school) could make things for their mum's. Every time Thomas made me something he would hand it to me and say "happy birthday!" The teachers would correct him and say "no it's for mothers day" but Thomas knew better :-)
Mary's class had an "excursion" aka field trip and she went to the Victorian markets (an outdoor conglomeration of famers markets) and brought me back a gift! http://www.qvm.com.au/qvm/photos.aspx
Throughout the day I was showered with flowers, cakes, tarts, balloons and cards from friends. In the evening I had a mini pajama party at my house which was a lot of fun!
Thanks everyone for the warm wishes--emails, Face book messages! Happy birthday!
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Glad Stan made it so wonderful for your birthday! Why? Because you are wonderful. Too bad about losing the pictures of your special day. Sure do love you Alisha! Yes, everyone, Eisha's name is Alisha.
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