Birthday Extravaganza 2008 Pt. Deux

I'm back to blog about the third and final day of my birthday festivities... wahoo!

December 21, 2008 - SF Party at Deighton's Well
The night before Jyoti and Renata had slept over at my house and it was great to catch up and really talk to each other after months of lacking communication. We stayed up till about 6AM talking, laughing, watching My Blueberry Nights and Darjeeling Limited. Blueberry was ok... we couldn't really get through it, lol but Darjeeling was so good! I adore Wes Anderson and I've already seen Darjeeling but watching it with them made it so much better. We assigned ourselves characters, as per usje, and I was Owen Wilson (a bit neurotic but motherly), Renata was Jason Schwartzman, and Jyoti was Adrien Brody (because she's tall) :)
We got up at around 12PM and didn't do much except watch TV, I read a bit.
For the night, my mom and I were "supposed" to have some sort of family dinner for my birthday at an unknown restaurant but at the last minute she invited Jyoti and Renata, and her friend to come with us. Yeah, well, whatever. I didn't care at the time because I was cranky due to the lack of sleep, and off we went for downtown.
I found it a bit fishy that she invited other people to come to our family dinner but shrugged it off and slept during the whole car ride. It was so icy and snowy when we were driving though! It was insane!
When we finally got to Deighton's Well, it was like we were in the wrong place... there was nobody in the whole bottom floor of the restaurant and the staff looked totally bored. It was quite sketchy. But when we started up the stairs to the the second floor... SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!
Everybody was there!!!!! About 15 people were sitting around a huge table, there was a huge plasma screen on the wall, presents and did I mention that everyone was there!?
BEST SURPRISE EVER! Everyone had been lying to me for about 3 weeks that they couldn't make it to my birthday dinner because of prior committments and what not... and they totally had me fooled! Ahhhhhh, it was insane! Paul and Jih Wei were the most convincing liars! Paul even told me the dinner he was going to have at the company dinner he was supposed to be at! Crazy people!
It was just so amazing to have everyone there when I thought nobody could make it! I actually can't believe they made it too because of the super heavy snow fall! THANKS EVERYONE!! :)