{"id":15553,"date":"2016-10-31T20:08:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T01:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=15553"},"modified":"2016-10-31T20:08:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T01:08:18","slug":"my-wicked-birthday-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=15553","title":{"rendered":"My Wicked Birthday Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian and I had a nice dinner at P.F. Chang’s<\/a> a week ahead of my birthday because we wanted to have an intimate celebration. We’re not really romantic types but, every now and then, we like to have a nice dinner together just by ourselves. <\/p>\n

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Here are some pictures from dinner. <\/p>\n

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We started with crab wontons because I really like them there. Unlike at other Asian restaurants, their filling is more crab than filler. It’s delicious!<\/p>\n

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My strawberry ginger margarita was super delicious also. <\/p>\n

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As for dinner, Brian got his usual Chang’s spicy chicken. <\/p>\n

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I also got my usual: Mongolian beef with eggplant instead of green onions. <\/p>\n

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Neither of us are really that adventurous when it comes to food. We find something we like and we order it every time. LOL. <\/p>\n

After dinner, it was time to head downtown to see Wicked<\/a> but first — let me take a selfie!<\/big><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I’m so lucky to have a husband who enjoys music theater just as much as I do. <\/p>\n

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We’ve learned from watching so many shows that, while it’s great to be up close, you don’t want to be too close to the front. We had the perfect seats!<\/p>\n

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We were right under the animatronic dragon. <\/p>\n

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I didn’t have a tall, big haired person in front of me this time either to obstruct my view so I was fully able to enjoy the show. <\/p>\n

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Just had to take one pre-show selfie with my wonderful husband because no more pictures allowed once the show starts. <\/p>\n

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Of course, we had to take an intermission selfie as well. LOL. <\/p>\n

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And a second one because we didn’t get the dragon in the previous photo. <\/p>\n

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The show was amazing. I loved the sets and the costumes and the props. The national tour cast was fabulous. Everyone was so talented and thoroughly enjoyed watching all of the amazing singing and dancing. <\/p>\n

I love Glinda the best. She was hilarious. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We missed the show when it came to town seven years ago so I’m super grateful that we had the opportunity to watch it this go around. I hear that it just gets better and better every year. <\/p>\n

I really wanted to get season tickets<\/a> because all of the other shows look fabulous but I’m glad we didn’t because I’m not in town during the week<\/a>. Perhaps my schedule will soon go back to normal and I can spend more time home. We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brian and I had a nice dinner at P.F. Chang’s a week ahead of my birthday because we wanted to have an intimate celebration. We’re not really romantic types but, every now and then, we like to have a nice dinner together just by ourselves. Here are some pictures from dinner. We started with crab […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1340],"tags":[115,27,2806,2804],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15553"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15570,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15553\/revisions\/15570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}