It was a Happy Birthday!

It was the wife's birthday on Friday so went out but stayed local because of everything that was going on. We had a reservation at Incognito but they had no food or electricity so that wouldn't work. So I arranged for us to go across the street to Marco Polo. I had Monteleone's make up a cake that I brought over for us to have at the end of the meal.

When we got there they had reserved a table and they had decanted a nice bottle of wine. The waiters all said that was their gift to Lisa for her birthday. That was very nice.

We decided on a traditional Italian style meal.

With started with a pasta appetizer of fuzzilli and veal meatballs. Then a tasty Caesar Salad. Finally we had veal as the main course. We always order something off the menu so Lisa had a veal chop parmigiana. They took a beautiful veal chop on the bone and covered it with a tasty sauce and mozzarella. I had the veal Sorrentino which was also wonderful.

There were about five other birthdays in the house that night. And as each one went on a couple of waiters would bring out a piece of cheesecake with a sad little candle in it.

When it was Lisa's turn they brought out a whole big cake and every worker in the joint joined in to sing. It was pretty funny. I made sure everyone had a slice since I didn't want to carry it home and the wife is not supposed to eat it anyway. It was a very nice chocolate mousse. 

So we were able to make it  a happy birthday after all.

We have so much to be grateful for that we have no complaints.