My gal, Megan

This weekend was so much fun!  I got to hang out with former student and good friend Megan.  She came for a visit this weekend.  We shopped, walked around Boston, Watched Elf, played games, and just had a good time!

Yesterday we went on a harbor boat ride all around Boston.  This was a great find, and a lot of fun!

Here she is, doesn't she look like a movie star?? 

We also did the very touristy thing of waiting in line at Regina's for what is widely known as being the BEST pizza!  I am a New Yorker by birth, but my favorite pizza vote goes here! 

This was the line at 2:30pm.  Not lunch, not dinner...

After waiting about 20 minutes we got tired of standing! 

We were going to take a picture before we dug in, but forgot.  It was so delicious looking and smelling a picture totally slipped our minds!

We finished the day yesterday with Bananagrams and cannolis.  What a great day!

Megan is going to kill me for this one!

Just another (birth)day!

So another year has come an gone.  Birthdays don't feel the same as they used to.  I used to get so excited for my birthdays because in our family they were a BIG deal.  My parents still make a big deal about our birthdays, and everyone in my life made this a special day.  A while back I decided that I should do something for my parents on my birthday.  After all they did all the work raising me!  I send them cake and flowers every year along with a thank you for all they do.  It means so much to me to let them know how much I love and appreciate them-and what better day than the day I was brought to their family?!

Nic also worked hard to make this day special.  We typically do a lot for each other's birthdays.  I awoke to a new MacBook from him  (I am currently using it to post this blog entry).  I have been wanting a MacBook for a long time now, and he was so sweet to get it for me.  He also took me out for a great dinner, and got me plane tickets to go see my BFFs in VA in two weeks.  He's so thoughtful!

When I got to school, the lovely ladies I work with greeted me with breakfast and some beautiful flowers.

We went out to celebrate with some friends last Saturday-but not before a grueling road race for me.

I love that my number was 499.  It's our house number :)

I ran a 6.66 mile race in honor of Halloween on Saturday, but it was a horrible run.  I hit the week where I hit the wall.  It was a lousy run, but I felt so much better after talking to Lindsay about it (thanks Linds).  I tweaked some parts of my run and have since had the best runs that I've ever experienced.

We tried a great new restaurant Saturday night with our buds.  The menu was so good, I could not decide what to have.  I have since went to their site written down each meal that tempted me and made them all this week for our dinners!  YUM :)  Here is a picture of Chicken with cranberry cherry chutney, served with smoked collard greens.

The food was great, and then we enjoyed a scorpion bowl at the Kong.  The Kong is a three floor restaurant, lounge and club.  In that order as you go up floors.  My scorpion bowl was missing a few things though...no plastic toys :)

Nic, Nick, Sally, Adrienne, Chris, and I enjoyed this large, strong drink.  Missing Marissa, Julie, and Jen.

All and all this was a pretty spectacular birthday!  Thanks to all of you for your calls, texts, FB messages, cards, presents, flowers, etc.  I definitely felt the love!