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Sunday Part II, From Mecca to Mexican

So my busy Sunday continued as I mentioned that it would in my earlier post. As the title eludes to, I went from Mecca to Mexican!

First, about Mecca. I had to make a brief stop at Mecca (Northpark Centre) today while down in Dallas. I needed to exchange some make-up and get a birthday gift for Mito at Teavana. So I first made a stop at the holiest of shrines at Mecca (Neiman's Make-up counter), and then quickly ran my other errands there.

After an oh too short trip to Mecca, I headed out to Party City for balloons. Then it was off to Matt's Rancho Martinez for Mito's Surprise 40th Birthday party. As soon as I made my way down to Lakewood Village, I discovered something was off. They had some sort of neighborhood festival going on and you couldn't park anywhere near Matt's. I called Lisa to warn her about the street closings and then headed out for my long trek carrying balloons no less.

Mito's best friend, Jeff arrived early and helped me rearrange the room right quick (you know I would have to change something!). While we waited on the other guests to arrive, Jeff and I got to talking and guess where he was a couple of weeks ago. Puerto Vallarta...at the exact same resort I went to last year and am longing to go to again! You know this didn't help my itch to go to PV soon!

Then Lisa and Mito arrived, and Mito seemed to be actually surprised (it was questionable whether he saw the invitation when they came to my house a couple of weeks ago to let Lola out to pee while I was in Ft. Worth and he started nosing around in my stuff).

Mito's arrival
Lisa & Mito
Mito opening gifts (this gift bag was really funny, it said "40, the ultimate F word")
Lisa and Me
It was a great evening of good Mexican food and even better Key Lime Pies that Lisa ordered from Grand Lux Cafe.

Waiter with yummy pie
Mito, trying to take the whole pie for himself just because he was the birthday boy!

Happy B-day Mito!

Comments

Anonymous said…
Thanks for all your help. Those were the best balloons ever. Too bad we couldn't have gotten a pic of you toting those across half the city!

lisa

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