My birthday kind of stretched out over two days. It wasn't planned that way, but that's how it fell out. Plans included but were not limited to the city, planting trees, a concert, a curry house, cake, and maybe a little downtime. I had planned to finally build our compost bins, but I was forbidden from any work of any kind. Good for me.
Here's what happened...
April 24th, dropped Yuula off with the Trunks at Dansbury packed for her first slumber party
Headed to NYC, took a nice leisurely stroll up the East River, watched a girls softball game, play at a dog park and an high-end antique shop where we could only afford the postcards.
Stumbled upon a lovely little green space called La Plaza Cultural where we got lots of ideas for our own landscaping.
We spent about an hour there, wandering in and out of all the little gardens and hidden nuggets. Pretty awesome.
Dinner at Brick Lane Curry House was a delight. Rustic and European curry dishes where Laura had the butter masala and I had to try the chicken biryani. Much spicier than your average suburb fare, but that's what we were looking for. Partnered with some aloo chaat and a 40oz of Taj Mahal each and it was a dining delight. Entertainment came when one dude at the table next to us, full of Australian youngens, ordered the Phaal, the house "challenge" dish, where they have to give a verbal agreement not to sue the joint is any harm comes to them from eating this insanely spicy dish. Just hearing the ingredients described gave me sweats. I had to yell out to the guy, who looked a little nervous that if he ate it, I'd buy it. Long story short, our dinner cost $20 more than what we ordered ourselves. Honestly, it was impressive.
Then to the venue, Bowery, never been. Felt old. Found seats in the balcony, away from the hippies. Opening acts were noisy but pleasant M. Geddes Gengras and noisy but abrasive Eric Copeland. Then Akron/Family took the stage and literally and quite unexpectedly blew our damn faces off. Not a single one of their hits, which is what these guys do, and every song was rather indulgent, but not in a bad way. Lots of loud, humming, tribal blasts by insanely talented musicians who have apparently found their sinister sound. Not the A/F we would've expected 4 years ago, but an awesome show nonetheless. Highlight had to be the encore where they finally played a familiar tune, of course, "Ed Is A Portal" which tore the crowd to pieces. We left around 1am, and were thoroughly tuckered.
Next morning was early, even tho we got home after 3am, we had to pick up Yuula at 7. An oddly frustrating search for a breakfast venue landed us at the Arlington Diner where I of course had birthday pancakes.
Went grocery shopping, took a couple hours. Then after going home and dumping the load, we headed out to Ross & Ross for the first time this season in search of some new trees, which has become a birthday tradition. Two hydrangeas, mainly because they were so well priced, plus Kathy likes us.
Home to break in our new grill, eat cake and open gifts. Check out this awesome addition to our ever-growing outdoor knick knack collection.
Nice. Happy Birthday to me.
And today we planted the trees.
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