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Celebrated my 36th birthday on Saturday. So I'm now officially closer to 40 than to 30. Awesome.

The highlight of the day was Mandy's present to me: a long weekend in New York in April. Highlights of the trip will include a night at the opera (to see La Boheme at the Met) and a night on Broadway (to see David Hyde-Pierce of Frasier fame in the show Curtains). Since I've never been to Broadway and haven't seen a full-scale opera in years, I'm really looking forward to it. Since Aidan isn't particularly excited about theatre or opera just yet, however, he'll be staying with granny.

In the evening we went to Bistro J for dinner - the first time either of us had been there. We really enjoyed it. It's a small, cosy place, with the (admittedly limited) menu chalked up on a board on the wall. The food was good and the service was friendly; we'll definitely be going back.