Happy Birthday, Willy!

It's been a busy but very fun weekend. Friday night I took Willy out for dinner at a nice local restaurant, No. 9 Park. We had some really delicious dishes, like prune-stuffed gnocchi with foie gras, hake (it's like cod), duck, and these two amazing desserts--an apple creme brulee and this liquid chocolate thing that I'm not even going to try to describe in writing. Suffice to say I stuffed myself silly (not that that's anything new). I just wish I had to brought his gift with me because it would have been perfect to give it to him while the table next to us was having their cheese course presented to them (Cheese, Gromit! Cheese!). We did have some laughs over the two really drunk, loud women at that table too. One of them actually almost fell over as they were leaving the restaurant. Klassy.

Saturday afternoon we invited some friends over for a BBQ and had a great time. We totally lucked out with the weather, our first 80+ degree days! It was a little scary inviting a bunch of people over for the first BBQ of the season since it's been kind of wet and rainy the last few weeks, but the weathermen ended up being right this time and we've had a gorgeous couple of days, officially transitioning from winter straight into summer. Typical no-spring New England.

That same night we went out for dinner with my family for our usual family birthday celebration, which is always fun. I couldn't eat though after all those hours of BBQing. Then my family decided to invite themselves over for BBQ leftovers tonight (Sunday) so we did some more socializing. I've got some serious cleaning up to do tomorrow.