Aunt's Birthday!

Well today was sort of busy. As soon as I woke up today, I called my aunt to wish her a Happy Birthday! She told me over the phone that she loved her new jewelry thing a ma bob we got her. It's funny because I had HID it out in her backyard under some stuff away from windows and such and she still managed to find it! What a cheater. She told me that she woke up then went down stairs and looked outside at her backyard. Supposably she does this all the time to make sure no one snuck in the house. pffftt whatever nina! (that's what I call her since she's my godmother.)

So yeah we had planned to take her out to dinner at night. She at first chose to go to P.F. Changs but we reminded her of this new place that opened up in the west part of town.



This new place was called Azafran. It's supposed to be some international cuisine place, AKA real fancy food that looks pretty. It used to be this other place called Yum Balam. I guess it wasn't doing to well and they decided to change the name. As soon as you walk in, everything looks the same as it did when it was Yum Balam.




(sorry the pics came out dark, forgot to turn the flash on it seems.)

So yeah, we sat down and I ordered some bottled water and stuff while everyone else ordered something else. The guy comes over with this chilled glass bottle and pours me some water in my champagne glass. So every time I need a refill he just comes and pours water in my glass that same way.
(So from left to right: My cousin Kristian, my little almost 18 years old cousin Daisy, my Birthday Aunt, my cousin Vivian, and my Mom!)

So before I had gotten there, they had already ordered some appetizers and stuff. They had gotten some calamari, some cerveche, and some asian styled wings. Everything was really good, well the wings were since I don't really like seafood and didn't eat any of the calamari or the cerveche. For those of you who don't really know what I'm talking about. Cerveche is diced up seafood, like crab, mixed in with diced peppers, chili, onions, and some other weird spices. The way they served it at Azafran was on tostadas or really hard tortillas for you white people. Most places I've been to give you like a cup of the stuff and you just scoop up the cerveche with your spoon to put in a tortilla or you just use the tostada basket.

(this is before anyone was buzzing)


So while we ate our appetizers my aunt had already ordered some drinks for her self. I think she was drinking Chivas and sprite/coke. She had already gone through 2 drinks and I could tell she was already getting crazy. It was so funny just being there with my family laughing at anything! Back when I was with my girlfriend, she introduced me to this drink called the vampiro. Basically meaning vampire in english. It's tequila mixed with some other stuff that makes the drink spicy. Like if you were eating mexican candy that got you drunk. So I had asked the waiter if they knew how to make those there. He came back with a sad no but he said he was gonna ask the bartender for a favor. In the mean time our meals started appearing on the tables and everything looked really really good.


I had ordered a dish called the Chuzzabasco. It was an Argentinen dish.... and yeah that's all I remember when I read it in the menu. heh but let me tell you! It was mighty tasty!

Everyone else ordered this chicken dish that came stuffed with cheese and chili and with a side of pistachio mole.



So while we were getting even more drunk by the minute. We managed to eat all of our food and bring out the little cake we got my aunt.




And I wasn't allowed to touch that cake!!! It looked really good, but for some reason I don't think it tasted as good as it looked. So by this time, half way through my meal, the waiter had come back with some weird looking drink. He said he felt really bad that they didn't know what the heck I was talking about when I asked him for that drink. So the bartender called up his friend in Miami, who also bartends at some "famous" clubs, and asked him if he knew how to make it. Low and behold he didn't. So instead of giving up, he got a recipet for another really popular drink in Miami. This beast was strong let me tell you. If you've ever taken a shot of a royal fuck then you can kind of imagine what this thing tastes like. It came in a huge glass and not a shot glass. Plus it was a lot stronger then a royal fuck and this was a freakin drink! Anyways I chugged it slowly at first then just decided to catch up with my aunt and her chivas drinking and finished it off.

Around this time almost everyone had finished eating their meals and the Chef from the kitchen came out and wanted to congratulate my aunt for her birthday with a nice raspberry cheesecake.




They also brought out some other deserts that we had ordered and MAN were they damn good!

(this was my aunts desert. It was like a creme brulet except with a twist.)

(this one was my cousin Kristian's desert. It was like a mouse cake in puffy layers of chocolate and some other stuff.)

(this one is the one my mom and my cousin daisy got. It's a flaun which is a mexican desert. This one though was made with nuts or nuez. So it was tasty.)

(this was the desert I picked, only cause it was the chef special and the guy made it sound really good. It was called mango y fresas con tequila. So basically these guys cook these strawberries and mango slices with tequila and serve it with ice cream. Pretty good stuff though.)

So our birthday bash was coming to an end but we were all laughing at everything. It was a nice cozy birthday party for my aunt. The restaurant wasn't full, it actually only had 3 other parties eating there, and the waiter was really cool. One thing that was funny was the fact that my mom accidently ordered some 20 dollar cognac. That crap was strong too. We all kept joking how she better finish her damn 20 dollar drink.
(haha look at my cousins "WHOA" face. i'm serious, you could get drunk just sniffing that stuff.)


We had good times and as always.... I'm super lucky and grateful to have this family of mine.

You guys can go ahead and act jealous now.