Carl’s Birthday’s

The Birthday Boy!

 

I’ve been waiting since Christmas to be able to celebrate his birthday because last year we weren’t together for his birthday. I was out of town at my grandparents, and then he went out of town so this was my big shot. I had been looking up a lot of things we could do and although it didn’t go quite as planned I will tell you what we did get to do.

For our 3 day celebration I got to have him all to myself for the first day, which was his actual birthday--- July 21st. The day didn’t go as planned because I was hooked up to an eeg test for seizures (blah blah blah) this isn’t about that… So we got a very very very late start. So we went to our dinner reservations at The Harbor Inn. I had heard about it being this “amazing” place and we should try it.

This is a picture of The Harbor Inn. I thought it seemed really beautiful. Every Wednesday they have dinner and “a cruise” there. Dinner is around 6 and the cruise is around 8 and until around 10.

We got there earlier then our reservations so we went ahead and sat down to look at the menu. We each decided on a salad to start off.                                                                                                                                             

Carl decided on the traditional caesar salad. Very different looking compared to your normal “salad in a bowl.” lol

 

My salad was a Gorgonzola salad, I had never had one before so I figured why not. It was actually really good. :) Have to also include a picture of the dinner rolls because they were very good.

Now onto the main course. It took a while to decide but, we both decide to try things we either haven’t had before or don’t have very often. Carl decided to try Wild Boar Tenderloin which included wild mushrooms, red pepper, roasted garlic aioli and 18yr balsamic, it also included green beans and potatoes on the side. I decided to have Sea Scallops: char-grilled, pear-bacon-cabbage hash, champagne mustard sauce and brown butter spatzel.

So now it is my job to tell you about the “wonderful meals” that we both had. I wasn’t lying when I said the bread and the salad was good, and when I tell you that this food was the worst meal I have ever tasted it is no exaggeration. Carl and I both kept eating to make the other feel better, which didn’t work. I wish I could zoom in on Carl’s meal because he ordered the meat to be cooked medium well and it in parts came out RAW! He said he could barely even tasted what the boar was supposed to tasted like because they piled on top of it so many mushrooms and other things.

My meal expectancies were not very high once I took a look at the food, but I tried it anyways. So in the item description it said char grilled not BURNT! The “brown butter spatzel” was nothing but pure butter, and the hash was just awkward, and to top it all off they had HONEY MUSTARD covering all of it, they can call it a “champagne mustard sauce” all they want but it was gross. Honey mustard on scallops?

We also had reservations to go on a romantic boat ride afterward but I was to disgusted to pay that company anymore money and Carl agreed. The amazing boyfriend that he is, could tell I felt HORRIBLE, and he thought he would take it upon himself to make me feel better on his birthday! So because of the fact that neither of us even came close to finishing our “meals,” he took me somewhere I should have taken him in the first place LONGHORN STEAK HOUSE. Simple, but so good. The reason he knew it would make me feel so much better—They have amazing house chips and dip!

We we supposed to go to the movies, but it had to be postponed because we both ended up sick. We blame the wild boar!

DAY 2: My Family

Pizza. Cake. Presents and the goofy bunch!

Mom bought Carl some new more colorful tshirts to wear!

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The front of Corey’s card he bought for Carl had two bees both saying “boo.” Can you guess why it was so funny? (if not….you can always do what Ryan did and say “what are boo bees?"

                                     Look at the pretty wrapping paper!

                                     Carl got the Twilight Scene It Game!

                                                       Ryan’s cute card!

 

 

Yummy Oreo Blizzard cake from DQ!! Carl’s favorite blizzard.

 

 

 

Can you imagine everyone singing the happy birthday song? Its so off key!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So I missed Carl blowing out the candles and I asked him to do it over again which is why he was laughing in the second picture. The third picture if you pay attention has no flames in the candles, no smoke from just being blown out, and he is staring at me probably thinking “did you take it yet?”

It was fun and thanks to everyone in my family for making him feel like he is part of our awesome family!

 

DAY 3: His Family!

Burgers and hot dogs on the grill, with popchips, unsweet tea to drink and Ice cream cake to top it all off! Although I didn’t take a picture of the food it was very good. I miss being at a place with an outside grill!

 

Doesn’t it look like the cake that never ends?! :)

 

 

 

So pretty though!

 

 

 

Now this game looks vintage. ;)

 

 

 

I thought I would bring out the side of my family to their family. Lets play games!!! Carl and I had a lot of fun!

 

 

 

Carl’s sister Andrea. I told her I would buy her starbucks if she smiled for the camera. :) See how well that works!

 

I love this picture of his mom. She isn’t looking at the camera but I think its cute because she’s laughing at Carl.

 

 

Over all I think his birthday went pretty good. Some plans went bad, but more then most of them went good. I can’t wait to celebrate many more birthdays with him! :) Thankyou everyone who helped!