Birthday celebrations

What a fun day I had yesterday!  Justin and I hung out all day, which is one of my favorite things to do.  We don’t actually get to hang out very often, he works late hours a lot.

Anyway, we started out the day at the Botanical Gardens.  I wanted to play with my new camera and take some pretty pictures.  I’ve been to there a bagillion times and taken lots of pictures there (I even had my bridal pictures taken there!).  We just walked around and enjoyed the beauty (and the heat, it was 99 degrees!!)  Here’s some pictures.

Look at this silly squirrel!  Have you ever seen a squirrel do this??

After the gardens, we went to Panera and got cookies.  We also wanted to cool down a little before the next destination.

I got a toffee nut cookie.  It was so so so good!

Then we went to the Kimball Art Museum (everything we did today was free!  Can you tell we’re on a tight budget??)  Sorry, no pics allowed in the museum.  They are in between exibits right now, so we just looked at their permanant collection.  They have some really interesting stuff.

Then it was on to dinner!  We went to Uncle Julio’s.  It was SO good!!  The salsa was the best that I’ve EVER had!  They char their tomatoes or their peppers before they put them in so you get that awesome smokey flavor and the fun little black specks.

I got chicken enchiladeas with salsa verde.  Salsa verde is one of my faorite things!  I love the tang of the tomatillos.  And it just tastes so fresh and healthy.  I ate ALL of these enchiladas, a little of the rice, and a few of the beans that came on the side.  Oh it was so good!

Oh and there was also a frozen sangria that escaped the eye of the camera.  I wasn’t really feeling a margarita when we got there, I guess because we spent the majority of our day outside.  After I had a big glass of water I decided that sangria sounded pretty good.  It was very tasty!

Anyway, that was my birthday celebration!