30th Birthday

To say I had a fabulous birthday weekend would be a complete understatement! Marshal planned a trip to Kansas City and didn’t tell me any of the details about it. It was perfect and wonderful and I could not have asked for a better birthday.

Poor Marshal really has his work cut out for him when planning surprises for me. I am a huge planner and really it just drives me crazy to not have control. So I had been giving him a pretty hard time right up until we got to KC. I wanted to know everything, but he didn’t tell me a thing.
When we arrived late Friday night he took me to Harrah’s. As Marshal likes to tell everyone, I love slot machines. I mean I have only been to a casino five times in my entire life, but I do really do like slot machines. After we lost all of our money, which didn’t take long, he drove us to the hotel in Overland Park. We stayed at the Aloft and it was very nice.

Saturday morning we went down to the Plaza district and went shopping. May I just stop right here and say, they have the biggest Forever 21 I have ever seen, made me pretty happy.

During lunch Marshal told me that someone would be calling any minute to tell us they had arrived in Kansas City to help celebrate my birthday. I had no idea that Ethan and Sarah would be joining us. Having them there really made the trip special and I cannot thank them enough for coming!

After shopping I got to go have dessert at The Cheesecake Factory. Sad to say this was my first ever trip to a Cheesecake factory. Those of you that have been before know that it was an extra yummy surprise.
For dinner Marshal made reservations at Huston’s Steak House. We went to the Huston’s in New Orleans all the time when we lived there. They have very fabulous prime rib. Another thing Marshal likes to tell everyone….”Andrea can put away more meat than anyone I have ever seen”. So as you can imagine I was extremely happy with his choice.

After dinner we went to the P&L, which is a huge warehouse with several different bars and clubs inside it. It was really neat. Our first stop was Howl at the Moon, a dueling piano bar. To our surprise Neil Diamond was there and they invited him up on stage to sing. Who would have thought we would be hanging out with Neil Diamond? After that we went to a dance club and had a blast dancing.

Considering I didn’t get back to my hotel room until 4 a.m. I am going to say I had a wonderful fun filled night! This weekend was just what I needed to help welcome me to my 30’s!!!