Once again, my family and friends have outdone it for my birthday! Haha, I felt like my birthday was lasting forever!! 3 birthday dinners, and a birthday vacation to Vegas with my friends! That was quite a week! I dunno how we fit it all in!
The weekend before my birthday, my mom and Kevin took Nicky, Dalton and me to this new fresh kitchen in La Costa for lunch (as of now, Dalton and I are addicted) for my first birthday dinner. I LOVE this place! My mom discovered it about a month ago because of their gluten-free menu. It makes me so happy seeing restaurants with fresh food made with good ingredients, no preservatives, no unnecessary grossness added to lower of the quality of food. Good quality food tastes GOOD! Makes sense, huh?!
The next night, my Dad and Melissa took my brother, Dalton and me to Casa de Bandini (which is also another place that has a huge gluten-free menu). Before this place was here, it was called the Yellow Coyote Tortilla Factory, which was delicious, quality Mexican food...doesn't seem like much has change! And I like it! :)
Knowing my parents, they just HAD to do something clever for my birthday present. After seeing this picture on Instagram of me stealing some toilet paper from the community pool to fill the roll in the apartment:
They decided to make a box of tissues with the money for my birthday folded inside the tissues! Haha definitely was not expecting that!
When I woke up on the morning of my birthday, I found my car nicely decorated by McKenzie and her mom. Haha they did a good job. And they were lucky that was I was early that morning! It took me way longer than expected to unravel my car. Although, if I were late for lecture, I probably would have just driven down the street...decorations and all
Lucky for me, my birthday fell on the day that I have my nursing lectures from 9am-6pm. I HATE MONDAYS! It is soooo hard to sit in the same classroom all day long listening to endless lectures. Some of my friends from my cohort were sweet enough to bring me flowers and gluten free cookies to help get me through the 9 hours of pain. Love my cohort! Hate nursing school ;)
After a LONG day at school, the Kuhns took me and some friends out to Benihana for dinner! We had the kookiest chef, haha I had no idea what he was doing the whole time. But, we like it crazy anyway ;)
By the way, I've been waiting for this day for YEARS! Marty McFly chose my 22nd birthday to go back to the future. Haha, too bad I didn't run into him ;)
At the end of the week, I had my first rotation at my psych clinical in San Diego. Although we were excited to get our orientation to the hospital (even though that never happened) I was anxious to get out of there because all my other friends were headed up to Vegas for my birthday bash! Clinical was suppose to go until 9pm, but thankfully we got out closer to 5pm and Dalton and I were able to get up there earlier than we thought!
After a LONG week of school, we were Vegas bound!!
Gotta love Sprout's when it comes to road trip food. Gluten-free sandwich from the Sprout's deli and organic lollipops :)
This time we stayed at the Luxor. It's always the best price to stay on the strip and near all the action.
Seeing how I don't go to Vegas clubs or bars, the main attraction is the people watching. Definitely plenty of interesting (and stupid) people to watch here. My first find: this man DEAD asleep on a bench.
The next day, we wandered the strip and went to the mall in Caesar's palace. We decided to go to dinner at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville Restaurant. While we were waiting for a table, Dalton walked me across the casino to show me where the bathroom was. When I came out of the bathroom, I find this face holding up a $650 voucher! He spun the slots 3 times and got this! LUCKY BOY!! Haha and of course, later that night, he won over $100 more :)
My nacho queens :)
22 birthday balloon hat
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