The Boy's Birthday

Finally some activity in the form of the Boy's birthday weekend after a week of non-stop exercise and all-round good behaviour.

We went to the Boy's favourite bar, Barcade in Williamsburg for old skool arcade games and beer. I felt like 'Bad Wife', as the group next to us was also a birthday party and had come equipped with a kilo of tacos, Hershey kisses, birthday cake and banners. Well, it's not a major birthday...

The highlight of my evening was introducing the 'You've been Tangoed' advert from the 90s to our American friends. Explaining the concept of a fat, bald man spray-painted in orange running around slapping people in the face doesn't really mean much until you've seen it with your own eyes. Thank goodness for Youtube. (For non-British friends, here is the link).

Today is the Boy's actual birthday and we've been stuffing our face with fish finger bagels, birthday cake, and Lobsterpalooza! We haven't actually eaten the lobster yet, but it's imminent and my face is salivating. This will be followed by a hockey game at Madison Square Garden. What a thoroughly New York day - apart from the fish finger bagels. (Admittedly in the UK it would have been fish finger sandwiches).

* FYI, as a thirtysomething, I still suck at video games. I have no dexterity or hand-eye coordination whatsoever. On one machine I got 1,040 points. The high score is over 8,000,000.