{"id":2125,"date":"2009-07-03T20:57:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T03:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2009-07-18T13:21:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T20:21:47","slug":"my-50th-birthday-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2009\/07\/03\/my-50th-birthday-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"My 50th birthday celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We decided to go out for dinner for my birthday on Friday July 3 because most of the good places are closed on the 4th.\u00c2\u00a0 We drove down to west Hollywood to check out the latest version of my glasses – they’re still too big but much closer, hopefully we’ll be ready to order them next weekend.<\/p>\n

We then drove up to 3rd Street to do some retail therapy before dinner – we went to New Stone Age<\/a>, a really great decorator’s store. I saw a pair of earrings I had to have, made from Tibetan beads in the shape of skulls.<\/p>\n

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We got a snack at a cool store called Mani’s; they have all kinds of neat gourmet foods.<\/p>\n

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And then we had dinner – I picked an Ethiopian restaurant called Nyala; there’s a block of Fairfax that’s called Little Ethiopia because its all Ethiopian shops and restaurants.\u00c2\u00a0 The meal was wonderful – we had the vegetarian combo and the meat combo, all piles on a large round sourdough bread on a metal platter; You eat with your hands although Aviva did bring a plastic fork.<\/p>\n

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On the way home we stopped for some cake.<\/p>\n

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Aviva enjoying a large piece of vanilla and strawberry cake<\/span><\/p>\n

On the 4th I walked over to the local Warner Center Park and met up with @princessleah515 which was really nice; she recommended some synagogues that might be interesting to us.<\/p>\n

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We decided to go out for dinner for my birthday on Friday July 3 because most of the good places are closed on the 4th.\u00c2\u00a0 We drove down to west Hollywood to check out the latest version of my glasses – they’re still too big but much closer, hopefully we’ll be ready to order them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[154,153,143,403],"tags":[518,598,597],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-los-angeles","category-travel-foreign","category-united-states","tag-earring","tag-nyala-restaurant","tag-skull"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t