Thank you for all the birthday wishes yesterday! Boy was that fun to wake up to.
I spent the day one of my very favorite ways. I make my girls take me out to lunch. Kate, Claudia, Stephanie and I met up in Morgan Hill and drove to Carmel Valley where we met up with Nicki for lunch at the Corkscrew Cafe.
The Corkscrew is one of my all time favorite places to have lunch. As soon as I walk through the gate I feel like I've been transported to some lovely European country where the afternoons are spent lazily around a table, with friends and food and laughter.
April is a perfect month to have a birthday, if you ask me. Around these parts you can almost be guaranteed lovely weather and the first blooms of Spring to have arrived to celebrate with you.
I need a gate like that. Isn't that welcoming? The restaurant has a gravel terrace and I've decided my next house is going to have a backyard just like that. With a pergola just dripping with wisteria and roses.
And a fountain of angel butts:
I felt like I spent my birthday from one end of California to the other. I started off in Palo Alto, had lunch in Carmel Valley and was home in Granite Bay in time for Rick to take me out for a birthday dinner.
I was even in places I have never seen before, on my drive back home. At one point I was a little bit nervous that I had gone the wrong direction and was headed for Los Angeles. Let me tell you California, all of it, is gorgeous this time of year.
Happy Birthday Andrea! It sound like you had a fabulous day.
Where I live, in the high desert of CA, it’s beautiful too. Tiny yellow and purple flowers are growing wild everywhere, and all the tree are blossoming with green, white, and pink. It’s definitely my favorite time of year in this part of the state.
Pretty, so which way did you go home? I keep going the same old way back and forth to Monterey when I visit Frankie.
Glad you had a good birthday. You guys go to the prettiest places!
Happy Birthday!
The cafe sounds wonderful! We’ll be in Monterey and Half Moon Bay this summer on vacation, so maybe we’ll meander over that way and enjoy a leisurely lunch there.
Glad you had such a wonderful birthday! And hey…April girls are diamond girls! You have the BESTEST birthstone evah!
Belated birthday wishes!
Gorgeous pics-LOL on the angel butts.
Agreeing with Karen K-you have the best birthstone. I wanted one of my kids to be born in April, just for the stone, but apparently, I’m a poor planner. 😉
Happy Birthday from Oz! Your photos are beautiful, you deserve to be spoilt rotten.
Happy Birthday!
Jill xoo