I'm now 25...yay!

Originally posted on my Friendster blog, November 21, 2008 at 11:00 pm

Can't believe it's been 25 years since I popped out of my mama's womb. I remember when I was only 14, I couldn't wait to grow into a full woman and get married. But now, I miss being a teen-ager...so fresh, so naive, so innocent. Sometimes I wish I could go back to my high school days. But I'm grateful that God is soo good to me for letting me live this long and the only thing I wished for my birthday as I blew the candles is more years for me and my loved ones to live in this beautiful world...a lot more years.

Brandon and I celebrated my birthday the way we did last year which was my first birthday in the US. It was very simple, we just ate dinner at a restaurant. Although I miss celebrating my birthday the Filipino way (lots of food, friends and family around, fun talks and stuff), I also like doing it this way because I feel like Brandon and I have our sweetest hubby-wifey moment. It's like the night is all ours to share (I know I'm corny). Besides, preparing dinner at home for my birthday won't make sense if it's just gonna be me and Brandon. I mean I have some acquaintances here in Utah, but people that I can call friends? None. So who am I gonna invite? Brandon has friends here but...uhmmm it's not his birthday, LOL.

Brandon decorated this cake :)

We were supposed to eat dinner at my favorite restaurant, Cheesecake Factory (this place is sooo good,and so are their food. num! num!) but when we got there at around 7, the place was so packed. A guy who works there told us that the next available table would be at 10, so that means we would have to wait for 3 hours. Arggh! So we checked out Olive Garden and Applebee's, same thing...long line. It's always like that here in the US on Friday nights, restaurants are so crowded. If you plan to have dinner at 7, you better arrive at your choice restaurant at least 2 hours earlier if you hate long lines. Our plan was to leave at 6 but putting make-up on and doing my hair took me an hour, so... my bad! Please say you understand coz you're a girl too, haha! So we looked for a restaurant where we couldn't see a line of waiting customers outside and we found this one called Hopper's Grill. It was a few minutes away from downtown Salt Lake so it wasn't very packed although there were a lot of people eating there too. When we got there, we only had to wait for not more than 15 minutes. I haven't been to this one before, neither has Brandon, but it was a pretty nice place...not just as nice as Cheesecake Factory,lol. Ohhh...how I wish they had Rainforest Cafe here in Utah, that would have been my top choice. But we had fun the whole night.♥