Holy cow. I had a ton of friends with birthdays yesterday. It seems like people that had birthdays yesterday are just really awesome friends. Kohl, Patrick and of course, Karen in particular.
Karen (@ok2baprincess), it turns out, is super popular. Nicole, who set this whole deal up, had something like 30 people at Sycamore’s for her birthday dinner. How she got everyone together from such different circles, who really knows.
The wait at Sycamore was pretty intense, but a few of us decided a bottle of wine would fix that.

Oh, and for this post, just click the little pictures to see them larger. Didn’t want to make the page super slow to load. Also, you can click the right side of any picture to go to the next one.



After our delicious dinner, we headed over to Top Ten Wines for a few glasses and some ping pong. Just about our entire troupe of people made the voyage. We totally took over that place haha.

Oh, and the wine was amazing.
Uh oh, now I’ve gone into a rant…
I don’t understand how people can NOT just love a good wine. Here in Missouri, many people don’t know what a good wine is. There are several Missouri wineries but most make crap wine, in my opinion.
Those who think they are connaisseurs of wine out here TYPICALLY think Yellow Tail is a top notch wine and Korbel, or worse, André are fabulous champanges, don’t even try to explain sparkling wine to them.
I’m not hating on Missourians, just leading up to how incredibly happy I am that most of my friends aren’t these people, especially those I was with last night. And even if you do love André and even Riverboat Red, that’s totally fine. I’m glad that you like those wines. Just saying, I don’t and can’t stand when people compare their $8.00 bottle of Hahn Estates’ Cycles Gladiator to my Seghesio.
See it isn’t about the price so much, there are awesome bottles of economical wine. Just do the research. A bottle of Seghesio costs you under $25 and will mop the floor with that stupid Hahn Estates’ Cycles Gladiator that my father’s side of the family is so obsessed with right now.
Though I pretty much love anything from the Dry Creek Valley.
Where the hell did that come from? Back to the festivities. So we played some ping pong and drank our wine, had our conversation. Awesome time.
Time for some more pictures!




After Top Ten, we broke up a bit, some went for karaoke while others headed home. Of course, @bigred77 @ericcox and @turtis couldn’t help but model for the camera as we walked to our cars haha. I love those tweeple!
The night was so much fun. We talked about changing out Sunday mornings around a bit too. Very excited about that, oh and Cake and a Movie night. The next one is tomorrow, Monday night! I need movie and cake suggestions.
Happy Birthday Karen! HUGS!