After weeks of stressful planning, and with the help of his awesome friends, I was able to pull off a wonderful surprise for Howie's birthday! Aside from a minor setback which caused additional stress that Howie created (lol he made me tell him which restaurant i was taking him to, then he changed it! it ended up being better than the original idea though. hehe), things went pretty smoothly, and more! It was a delightful success!
He was on-call during his birthday weekend, which is most unfortunate but not quite surprising considering his profession, but I decided Friday (yesterday) would be the best day. We celebrated in TriBeca. I treated him to an amazing French dinner at Chanterelle topped off with a specially made birthday dessert from the chef. That dinner itself would've sufficed to make for a remarkably special--and highly romantic--celebration! But we didn't stop there. After dinner, we walked over to M by Megu for drinks, where he was pleasantly SURPRISED by some of his closest friends! One of those friends is director of the place so she helped me set it up. Gotta love open bar with a professional mixologist! He kept those delicious cocktails coming. There was green tea cake! I'm so glad they were able to make it. That was an incredible way for me to meet and get to know the people whom Howie holds near & dear. I learned that he's been blessed with really good friends =). You dont understand the pains i went through finding these people whom i hardly know, getting their emails and hunting them down on FaceBook (lol), messaging them, then making a detailed Evite to send out 2 days before showtime, and repeatedly making sure of each one's confirmations!! hahaha. *pphhheewww!!!
Thank goodness his birthday only comes once a year!
Aside from planning for that night, i spent the other half of my time getting his gift. At first i was racking my brain on what to get, because i simply didn't know! But all i had to do was take a few moments to think about him, and the ideas came rolling. Instead of 1 thing, i got him 5. hehee. Aren't i sweet? ;)
oh yea, and today (his actual birthday) he was surprised once more by his cousin and her bf with another yummy birthday cake! I just realized that altogether, he had 3 birthday cakes with candles to blow out. Wow , his birthday turned out to be better than planned. ♥
gosh i'm tired! goodnight =)
