A Wedding, Bithday Party, Car Show & Job Interview

The last weekend in October we spent in Charlotte NC. The main reason we went up was for Jefferey and Amanda's wedding on Saturday. It was a beautiful wedding with crisp fall air and tons of fall colors. We were able to see some of our friends that have also moved away from Charlotte and a some that are still there.

Nathan and Chris (we really missed seeing his wife Amy)

The cake was really cute and delicious!

After the wedding we went by Trader Joe's. I love this store and I really, really miss it.

Sunday just happened to Stephanie's birthday and they had a big party for her Saturday night. Ben and Stephanie were also our hosts for the weekend. It was great to catch up since we haven't seen them in a year.

Sunday after church we went to the GoodGuys car show. Someone just happened to have tickets at the party Saturday and wasn't going to use them.

The search for the perfect wagon continues...

...or bus
Sunday night we went to our favorite restaurant The Crepe Cellar. It was just as amazing as last time.

My crepe was filled with salmon, leeks, tomatoes and Gruyere cheese.

Nathan's pesto and brie fries...

...along with his wild mushroom, spinach and goat cheese crepe.
After dinner we stopped by our favorite french bakery Amelie's. We split a little cake with vanilla chifon layers that were soaked in Grand Marnier and then covered with (real) vanilla buttercream and almonds.

It was a busy weekend but a blast...we'd love to get back to NC one day. Oh and Nathan did have an interview at one of the race shops on Monday. We're still waiting to hear back.

Growlers Pourhouse

We've been waiting for about a month for this little place to open and it finally did 2 weeks ago. It is owned by the same people and right next door to the Crepe Cellar (where we ate for my b-day). Growlers centers around great craft beer and wonderful beer food. The menu consists of simple small bites, house-made sausages, oysters, and a few tasty desserts.

The tables were really neat as well as the huge front door.

Birthday Goodness

I had a wonderful birthday! Thank you all for the well wishes. My day started by waking up at 6 AM...when you get up at 4AM during the week it's hard to sleep past 6 or 7. Despite the early hour Nathan allowed me to open all of my birthday gifts. I received some beautiful jewelry from my in-laws, $$$ from the parents and grandpa and Nathan bought me a wonderful book, The Cheese Board which is all about bread, pastry, cheese & pizza!

After breakfast we headed to Concord for a few hours of antiques and hopes of finding something to spend birthday money on. I was not disappointed as you will see further on in this post.
After many hours of walking around we headed to the house to freshen up and go out for dinner.
We dined at the Crepe Cellar in Noda and it was by far the best meal we've had since I've moved here! It was fabulous!

We began our meal with mussels (sage, garlic, white wine).
(once again I didn't want to be the annoying person with the flash in a dark restaurant)

Nathan had the special swordfish with asparagus and risotto. I can't remember what all was in the risotto or on the sword fish but it was phenomenal.

I had a wild mushroom, spinach and goat cheese crepe with red cabbage slaw. Both were amazing and the slaw was the best I've ever had.

We finished our meal with a sweetened mascarpone & berries crepe and...

a Crepe Suzette (Grand Marnier butter sauce with vanilla bean ice cream).

It was a great birthday and here are my purchases with my birthday money.

Crazy Daisy Pyrex

New Blender (I burned up Nathans making soup)

Vintage shoes from Spain

AND this fabulous hat!!!

Cabo Fish Taco

Nathan took me to Cabo Fish Taco last week for dinner. He raves about this place so I was curious to try it out. It was great! We both had their blackened Mahi taco's and they were amazing!