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Giddy anticipation.  An excuse to dress up.  A perfect birthday celebration.  A date with 3 amazing friends.  A night filled with countless giggles and grins!

 

Thursday night, T, C, K, and I took a night off and ate out at Station 220 in downtown Bloomington to celebrate T's birthday.  We ordered the 7-course-tasting and thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it!  I would highly recommend it to any of you fancy-adventureous diners out there...the chefs did an amazing job!

 

If you haven't already read K's blog on our evening...refer to it to get a more detailed description of the foods...She's much more versed in the culinary area than I!

 

Notice our excited expressions and easy smiles...before we were filled to the brim!

Course #1...possibly my favorite - fried pork wrap with some yummy sauce under it!

Course #2...had a hard time with this one...I'm not a fan of tomatoes...but I choked down most of it. ;)

Course #3 - Sweet corn soup (i think...) with shrimp & carrots in middle - this was good for the first couple bites but by the end I could have about hurled! But I don't want to scare you away...everything else was superb!

Course #4 - Delicious tasting salmon!!! Hmmm-mmm!

Course #5 - Extremely tender beef cheeks...with some carrots, beans, and rice-type-stuff...
Everyone I told about this course looked at me, smiled, and said...Do you know where beef cheeks come from?! ;)

Course #6 - our first dessert - a fruit tart with fresh berries and sorbet. YUM!

T's Birthday surprise...to her relief there was no singing involved!  And our waiter in the background...

Course #7 - Tiramisu - this was delicious but by this course I was so full I thought I was gonna hurl (for the 2nd time that night...) so I could barely finish it...but it was still super delicious!



After the meal - our half grins and bent trunks due to the bulging middles....that's when we decided to take a walk around the block to settle our stomachs...or something like that!

So much fun tucked into one evening...I think part of my stomach issue was because we were laughing so hard at times...try laughing on a completely full and overflowing stomach...Yeah, actually I don't recommend it! Oh and I can't forget to mention our frequent bathroom trips - we drank so much water with the meal I think we each went to the bathroom at least 3 times throughout the 2 1/2 hour period!! I wonder what the waiter thought... And of course we had to go in pairs... :) 

 

So thankful for these 3 girls...our memory file keeps getting larger!  Thanks C&B for giving us this opportunity! I thoroughly enjoyed it...plus I was super excited to go on a "fancy date" and get to dress up - even if we were a bit overdressed compared to the rest of the crowd!  Things like that thrill me...call me odd.  :)