the never ending birthday

Panu's 30th birthday celebrations started 5 days before his actual birthday, with a beautiful dinner at Pearl (he refused to let me, the asian tourist, take photos *boo*), followed by the naughtily hilarious Avenue Q. and now, almost 3 weeks later, the celebrations continue... and will do so for the foreseeable future, at least for another three weeks!

aside from all the fabulous presents that I got him, amongst the highlights would be his family visiting from Sydney. Though it is always stressful and tiring hosting family (and believe me, the Nevalainens are a tiring bunch - and let me thank my friends now who've listened to me vent!) their effort for making the long journey for a mere week did not go unnoticed. It was lovely, solid family time.

But goddamn, thank f&%$ it's over. *grin*

the celebrations continued with various dinners, drinks and even high tea (ahem, man tea), but the mother of all celebrations took place on Saturday night at Dirty Martini. I really don't know what else to say about the night except that we started with cocktails at dinner, and throughout the night there was a constant flow of mysterious concoctions, shots, beers and delicious tequila!

(oh boy i think i have a new found love for good tequila...)

it was hands down the messiest trashiest night we've all had in a while... Sunday was spent comatose and randomly giggling our way through the ridiculous photos...




































































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