Happy Birthday Alicia (part I)

We had a little restaurant celebration this weekend as part of Alicia's "birthday week". We went to The Parlor, a fairly new little restaurant/cafe tucked away between the plethora of golf courses within Cheltenham, with the Hohwy-Barclay family. A marvellous little place, with very yummy gourmet food. Alas, Alicia has yet to evolve her restaurant palate above the "pasta carbonara" level, so the more finer-dining menu choices were little lost on her. Still, they were very accommodating, and whipped her up a lovely pasta carbonara.

In addition, Daddy went to a fairly big effort, and baked a chocolate cake for his little girl, using a time-honoured recipe handed down from parent to child, and conveniently located on a random website on the internet via google. Turned out pretty good, too. Sadly Daddy forgot to bring the candles to the restaurant, so we had to make do with a sparkle generously provided to us by our hosts.

Of course, when we got home, we simply had to plunk the forgotten candles into the decimated remains of the cake, and do it all over again!

All this effort, and we haven't actually gotten to the birthday yet! Stay tuned...