T is for Birthday Fun

 Hello to one and all, I thought I would try to join you all this week, it’s been busy here, taking boys to school, birthdays etc and we’ve all been ill with some bug our eldest Grandson picked up, he kindly passed it to me, I passed it to Grandad who is now still coughing, all tested negative for Covid thankfully.

We had three Birthdays , Eldest GS was 15 on 25th October, Mine 31st!! And GS was 11 on November 2nd, we had parties and meals out all planned, eldest went out for Sushi with his friends but actually on his birthday was feeling ill so we cancelled his meal out, on my Birthday the boys had parties for Halloween so we had an Italian takeout which was lovely but the next  night we had to cancel my meal out as I was ill too, youngest had his party at the Frontierland park, nerf guns and pizza, he seems to have escaped the bug but our son caught it too.

We finally went out to the Waterbar in San Francisco last Sunday for lunch to celebrate all three birthdays

The inside of the Restaurant, they had giant fish tanks but thankfully we didn’t have to choose the fish from there!

The beautiful view from the Restaurant, the Bay Bridge

My starter, chicory salad with walnuts, apples and a vinaigrette, it should have been blue cheese but I asked for a different one as I don’t like blue cheese, My DH had that and said it was delicious 

My main course of Sole, really delicious.

The accompaniments on some dishes I had to google as I didn’t have a clue what they were, most turned out to be some fancy name for the way a vegetable had been cooked!

DIL and Eldest GS had Oysters with some dips, apparently one was very hot, our GS drank two glasses of water after trying it

DH and DIL ordered this dish, another name I’d never heard of  which turned out to be Tuna, they both enjoyed it.

I totally forgot to take a photo of my Sticky Toffee Pudding, the best I’ve ever had, DIL told the waiter about our birthdays so they came to the table with three of these, fudge brownies, delicious 

On the way home DIL spotted this car registration plate, DH was driving and had to keep up while she took the photo, she said this should be mine, not sure my darling husband agreed !

Another busy week this week, DIL is away in London working, GS is being given a RISE award on Wednesday morning at school, we’ve been invited to watch but he doesn’t know anything about it.Eldest GS is in a school play on Thursday evening, Grandad asked if he is the third tree on the right, all he had in return was a grunt, haha Teenagers!

Just been to the Daycare where the boys used to go, we took four huge bags of toys and three bags of books, DIL is ruthless when she gets going, haha, it was so lovely that they still remembered us after six years.

Sadly we fly back to England the day after Thanksgiving, DH is cooking and has been told they all would like Roast beef and Yorkshire puddings instead of Turkey this year.

We have been lucky with the weather, it’s been very warm and dry, cool in the mornings but sunny and warm by lunchtime although this week we may get some rain.

I hope you are all enjoying some good weather and keeping well, I hope none of you catches the bug, it’s really awful, hope to catch up with you all later.

Jan x