Monday is my birthday. We decided to "observe" it Saturday, and I wanted to observe it by going to OMSI and the Spaghetti Factory, with the family plus my mom and brother.
Nothing new for me, except I haven't been to OMSI since I was a kid, and now we have kids ourselves! They also have never been to the Spaghetti Factory, which was the very, very fancy restaurant my brother and I got to go to for special occasions as kids.
OMSI was a blast. If you don't know, it is the home of the USS Blueback, a retired diesel-powered Navy sub which was featured in an old talkie called The Hunt for Red October. (This used to be a big deal when I toured the sub as a kid. Now they don't even mention it. Fine, it doesn't have any computer animated woodland fairies or Channing Tatum but it was a quality flick, dammit. Let's not let history die!)
Here's young Pete in the driver's seat.
Then it was off to the Spaghetti Factory, where Pete was treated to a balloon dinosaur. I was beginning to get confused about whose birthday it was.
And, true to the spirit of this blog, I changed things up. I always, for decades now, have ordered the Spaghetti al la Homer, with mizithra cheese and browned butter. But this time I decided to get it with mizithra cheese, browned butter, and garlic, mushrooms and bacon. It was good, but maybe a bit overcrowded. Here it is, all food-porned up with camera-phone effects, because the Spaghetti Factory is a very very fancy restaurant:
Happy birthday to me.
It was a great day Dan. And HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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