How to spend a good birthday…my style.
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1. Get up and sit in my massage chair taking 3 hours to get moving.
2. Get lunch bought by a hot friend at Yamato Sushi.
Yamato Sushi (photo courtesy of http://www.dineouthere.com)
3. Meet my dad and his girlfriend to walk around town and chill at my place, receive gift.
4. Join 13 good friends for All-u-can-Eat chocolate Fondue at CapStone Tea.
Fondue at Capstone Tea (photo from eatdrinklaugh.wordpress.com)
5. Rent a red Mini Cooper with sunroof from Zipcar.com > coupon here, cruise the Canada 1 highway to Horseshoe Bay to drop dad and his girl at the ferry and hug the curvy back roads of the neighbourhood on the way back.
Mini Cooper Interior
Me, Marcy and the Mini Cooper
6. Stop at Stanley Park just in time to catch a brief (and rare for this area) lightning storm that lasted about 10 minutes.
Stanley Park Totem Poles (photo courtesy: http://www.birthofaculture.com)
7. Spend rest of evening with old friend from the Sunshine Coast drinking delicious scotch named Auchentoshan (received as a gift from my good buddies Elliot and Josh) and colouring drawings from my new Sexy Colouring Book > coupon here.
Auchentoshan Whisky
8. Wake up next day and listen to James Bond 007 music and pick up a lovely date a the grocery store for drinks at Shangri-La Hotel in the downtown West Side with live jazz to go with it. Nice place.
All-in-all, a good way to spend a birthday.
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