My Birthday Weekend

As said by my friend Jen, "bust out the eye cream, Aliswan is getting old!" Yes, I turned 27 on Sunday, but took the liberty of celebrating and indulging and enjoying friends the entire weekend. It all began with a massage on Friday after I got off the hospital post call.

I also bought this groovy birthday dress.

Aaron, Dave, and Greg from college along with their lovely wives/fiance Katie, Lauren, and Jen made a weekend trip to Chicago. We ate dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, New
Rebozo, where our dinner was accompanied by hugs and kisses from the chef as well as a tower of ice cream covered in Lucky Charms for my birthday. Notice how the guys are strangely coordinated. Then we went to Pete Miller's for jazz and rang in the 25th at midnight.

On Sunday we spent the day with one of my very best friends Emily and her husband Jeremy, in town from TN. We went to see the Indiana Jones movie and then had a leisurely dinner out. Hopefully in the next 5-10 years we'll both be back in the homeland and hanging out like that on a regular basis. Emily is one of those friends that you don't even have to be doing anything with, just being together is fun and easy. It meant a lot to me to spend the day with such dear friends. Another strangely, unplanned, coordinating combo.

Marc finished his week of finals on Friday, so it was a time to celebrate for him too. He did an amazing job again in his classes, and after a semester of much hard work and discipline, he was able to take the entire weekend off from studying and work. What a great feeling. I loved having him around the whole time and was glad he could get to know some of my favorite people better. I woke up from my post call nap on Friday to find those flowers at my beside. He writes the sweetest cards, and our favorite incense he bought for me was so strong it nearly smoked us out of the apt! Birthday gifts and Christmases pale to the gift that is my husband!