Early birthday dinner

Since Christmas this year will be spent driving along the North South highway (and not enjoying it!) I decided for an early celebration at Chili's. Since it was a weekday and Mid Valley's parking lot would be full by lunch time, I'd always start my journey at 11am to park in my usual spot (Garden's Zone B, level P2). Why - because it's a single spot so no irresponsible people would carelessly open their doors too wide and touch mine. Believe me, I've seen it happen when this auntie did in in front of my eyes.

But since I'll be tagging along with K, who overslept, we arrived when all spots were filled up and spent a good half hour finding one. Dang. That is why I prefer going out by my own.

Anyways, I spent the day at my usual hangout spots - bookstore and pet store before dinner. Also did some Christmas tree ornaments shopping in an effort to make my tree look nice for once.

I ordered the usual New York strip, with my fav *half eaten* mashed potatoes with black pepper gravy, garlic bread and fresh vegs! It never ceases to fail me and totally worth my money.

K's lamb shank with mashed potatoes and black beans. He wiped everything clean.

My mango juice.

K's tomato juice. He then opted for a pineapple refill, but the waiter thought he wanted to mix both together which resulted in a "quite good" taste, according to K.