Thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday, either by phone, card, email, or Facebook and thanks for the gifts, too.

We spread my birthday out over both days of the weekend and Lesley basically let me do whatever I wanted. I mostly wanted to do stuff that I like doing that I don't normally get to do. We walked to a couple art galleries on Saturday afternoon. It was a little windy and cold, but I enjoyed the walk. We went to the Photographic Center Northwest, which I'd been to before and enjoyed, but I didn't like it as much this time. I'd also heard a lot about the Frye Art Museum, which was definitely worth visiting, but I was a little underwhelmed.

Lesley had been asking me for weeks where I wanted to eat dinner and I couldn't figure that out. There were a few places that sounded decent, but I decided to go to a place with live music, because we rarely do that. We made our reservation for before 7 to save money on the cover charge and the jazz didn't start until 8. We were the first ones in the restaurant, which served Mediterranean and Italian foods. We started with some baked feta cheese with pita bread, which was very good. Lesley got a gyro and I got moussaka, which I'd never had before. Mine was okay, but Lesley's gyro was really good (I got to eat the leftovers for lunch). Before the band came out, it started snowing outside. The band had a vibraphonist, pianist, double bassist, and drummer. They were all very good musicians, but it wasn't really my favorite kind of jazz. Still, I enjoyed it. We stuck around for a couple hours of music and when we left it was still snowing. We took the streetcar most of the way home (it's free this month because of its 1 year anniversary). When we got home, I got to eat some of the super-delicious, sweet, moist, tasty yellow cake that Lesley made for me that morning.

On Sunday, my actual birthday, we weren't sure if we'd go to church because of the snow on the ground, but we made it there without any problems. After church, we had a quick lunch (with cake) and Lesley gave me a new wallet, which I kind of needed. Then we took the bus out to the U-District to see an independent movie. We saw Happy-Go-Lucky, which was pretty good. After that we ordered some pizza and watched the football game between the Cowboys and Giants. The outcome of that game was very satisfying, but not enough to overshadow the rest of the weekend, which was very good.