Birthday Wishes To Susan

Last week it was Susan's 24th birthday and to celebrate, I went down to Long Island for three days to do all sorts of things with her. Thursday morning she and I met up and ran errands until having to meet her father and her grandparents who'd come in from Florida. We all had lunch together and then Susan and I headed back to her apartment for a quick clean-up (I scrubbed the stove and counter tops!) before going out again with the above mentioned bunch for a birthday dinner at a Mexican restaurant. After being serenaded by a bunch of waiters wielding flan and a sombrero adorned with helium-filled balloons, Susan and I ducked out to meet friends at Dave and Buster's (a bar-arcade place with games and drinks and food) for a night of innocent fun.


On Friday we drove pretty close to Queens to meet up with Ellen, another friend of Susan's from Bing, had lunch, picked up some shoes for Susan to wear to Ellen's wedding this August, and then left that area shopping and running more errands all the way back to her place. We didn't actually get in until close to 9pm, but when we did we cooked up an awesome stir-fry and enjoyed dinner together in her living room before ending our busy day.


Then on Saturday we picked up her grandparents and the four of us drove to Forest Hills, Queens, where we parked and took the subway into Manhattan. First thing we did there was go to the Museum of Modern Art (which I don't think I'd ever been to) on 53rd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues. It was a lot of fun and after a couple of hours we left for Canal Street in Chinatown to meet up with Susan's cousin and his girlfriend for dinner. After that we all took a stroll through Little Italy to do some more (surprise surprise) shopping. Pretty soon it was time for me to go, so we said goodbye to Susan's cousin and Susan and her grandparents and I made our way to Grand Central Terminal where we parted so that I could catch a train back to Westchester and everyone else could catch a subway back to Queens.


Phew! It was a really fun but REALLY busy couple of days. Happy birthday, Susan-- I hope you had a blast!!