Birthday fun with Astroboi - Breakfast @ Brothers Family Restaurant once again, Spring Time Dano paintings & another wellness drink from S3 Coffee

My last weekend of my birthday month...

was spent with my BFF Astroboi...

at a place we went to exactly one year ago...

The bakery at the new Ranch 99 Chula Vista (including cream puffs)

As promised...

a look at my gluttonous pastry purchases at 99 Ranch in house bakery...

The new Ranch 99, Chula Vista (the store)

Signs were up on the old Haggens (formerly Vons) on Telegraph in November of last year...

with progress in late December..

up until late March/early April when the new Ranch 99 in my 'hood opened...

Late lunch @ Trade Winds Tavern

The short-lived Char House is now Trade Winds Tavern...

Our last stop of the day for my birthday crawl...

You can't miss this place due to the striking mural in front...

International Deli and Cafe + shopping break

Before heading over to Fashion Valley to window shop, I wanted us to check out this place that Cathy of mmm-yoso highly recommended...

It's in the same strip mall as Rose Donuts and J & T Thai Street Food...

The Kouch Espresso Bar & Lounge

As promised, another coffee stop...

(my awesome 'drive by' exterior shot)

at the newly opened Kouch Espresso Bar & Lounge in Hillcrest, a neighborhood I haven't been to in awhile...

Birthday Food Crawl with the Educator GF's - First stop...Communal Coffee

This past weekend was spent with my good friends, the Educator GF's...

We did miss TORC who had family business to attend to, but ended up visiting her later that afternoon.

Our first stop was coffee. We were bad and parked across the street in the soon to be vacated stripmall.

Now wowed by my first time here, I wanted to give Communal Coffee another chance...

Mr. Holmes Bakehouse + "Reservoir Dogs" location across the street!

Chicken Boy is watching you...

in Highland Park that is.

Down Figueroa on 59th, you will see this liquor store...

proclaiming, "The coldest beer in town"...

Kindness & Mischief revisit

Pickup up where I left off from our breakfast repast at Penny's Burgers...

we were back on Figueroa Street...

It was time for some coffee and hopefully some pastries at a coffee shop Cathy and I visited earlier that summer...

Birthday coupon @ Chamorro Grill (3x) + drinks from Better Buzz

It seems like we are here once a year...

since birthday coupons are meant to be used you know...

Sometimes It Snows In April - Prince -1 Year Later

"Sometimes it snows in April..."

(from my "Murals at the Redwood Laundrymat" post, Oct. 2013)

Prince Rogers Nelson 
(June 7, 1958 - April 21, 2016)