Waking up with a cooked breakfast was definitely a nice way to start my birthday. Although these poor bits of bread got the life toasted out of them Jules did pretty well with the rest of the nearly Full English. Considering he didn’t actually have a toaster I thought he managed to balance the cooking fairly well. It was delicious and certainly filled a hole. Thanks Jules!

After our Lakes District plans were skuttled we had to come up with a game plan to occupy us for the rest of the weekend. I was willing to let Jules and Sandra off the hook so they didn’t have to feel obligated to spend the whole weekend with me. However they seemed game for whatever I could come up with so Planning-Me kicked into action.

The weather was actually fairly decent (in comparison to the day prior anyway!) so I thought since we were fairly near the St Alban’s Pitch and Putt it would be a brilliant day to tackle it. We managed to drag Akhlaq along for the outing as well and we splent a pleasant few hours out on the course.

We saw some bunnies and then Akhlaq just had to kill our driver! It was pretty funny and wish I’d captured all our reactions to seeing the driver head fly off into the distance. Sadly, the head went further than any of our balls did on that particular hole! I did, however, manage to get some photos of everyone in action – I love the silly grins the three of them had on their faces:

This took us to mid-afternoon. Jules then had to spend a couple of hours dropping Sandra and I off out our respective homes for a bit of a rest before we all joined up again for dinner at Abracadabra. James joined us at what was one of the strangest venues I’ve been to in a long time.

Abracadabra Restaurant, located near Piccadilly Circus, is a magic-themed Restaurant and Night Club. It actually is a fairly funky venue though strangely quiet for a Saturday night. I’m fairly sure that at one stage we were the only diners!

The Restaurant itself has many little sections – from a bar at one end, to tables in the middle, to alcoves with their own personal CD players (bring your own CDs or if you’re lucky, like we were, the manager will rustle up some Justin Timberlake for you 🙂 ), to a revolving table (albeit revolving at a very very slow rate), to bondage themed tables/rooms!! Little screens in the alcoves allow you to put up any sort of message (and funnily enough these even appear on mini screens in the toilets! but more on the toilets below.) You can even do shisha if you wish (currently Abracabra are rebelling against the no-smoking indoors laws – one negative.) Then there is the night club down stairs which was actually very cool looking.

The service was very friendly and accommodating – though I do wonder how they would have coped under a bit more pressure. I get the feeling that as there were not many other diners in the restaurant at the time we were getting quite focussed attention (we even later got a tour of the restaurant hence our finding out about the bondage table!)

The food, if a little on the expensive side, looked and tasted good from what everyone said. I found the veges that accompanied my steak slightly greasy but the steak was cooked perfectly and the serving portions were quite generous. The wine prices, however, were on the killer side price-wise – we found one bottle (admittedly it was Cristal) selling for £29,000!!

The highlight of the Restaurant though was the restrooms – boys and girls. Logistically sometimes the toilets didn’t really work but man they were fun to look at! Check these pics out:

I had a great day today thanks to everyone who could celebrate it with me. Thanks to Jules for breakfast and generally driving us around. thanks to Sandra for surprising me with chocolate birthday cake and thanks to Abracababra Restaurant for playing every birthday song known to man! 🙂