Yesterday I turned 29 and was lucky enough to celebrate with friends Allison, Elle, and Ria. We tried a new (to all of us) bar, The Homestead, and restaurant, Bissap Baobab. The Homestead had a great old wooden bar, gold-ish tin pressed ceiling, fuzzy red wallpaper, and old-timey naughty pictures of women sans shirts. The restaurant served Senegalese food, which was delicious. The multiple ways of cooking onions were all super-tasty. Here's a picture of the four of us (not quite flattering to me, but whatever).
I spent a long weekend in Pittsburgh and got to hang out with my parents and brother--and my mom cooked a birthday dinner. Our family friends, Bill and Joanie Kilpatrick came over (she's in the yellow shirt) too.
It was a typical cold and snowy winter weekend, but it was great to be back in Pittsburgh.
The weekend before, George and I met Allison in Point Reyes and we did a nice 8 mile hike down to the beach. It was gorgeous.
