My birthday celebration

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I had a full day of activity for my birthday. It was just hubby and I. It started off with a sweet breakfast at a nearby restaurant (Panino Rustico). There I had a blueberry crepe, followed by a cappuccino and a linzer tart. Then we went to a Broadway show called Shucked. It was a great musical, however, the actor I really wanted to see (Alex Newell) who won a Tony for the role of Lulu was not there. We also ended up getting there ten minutes late, which wasn't good. I hate missing even a minute of a show. If it weren't for a parking garage a block away we would have been even more late. After the show we walked along Times Square and made our way to a French Restaurant called La Grande Boucherie where we had dinner. There we shared everything. Our order included escargot, cauliflower soup with custard, foie gras torchon (French for “fat liver tea towel”: toast, foie gras, caramelized onions, cherries), duck confit salad, MAGRET DE CANARD À L’ORANGE entree (roasted duck breast, orange sauce, braised Belgium endives), and for dessert Bonnet de Noel (Gingerbread mousse, apple brunoise jelly, lemon madeleine biscuit). We ended the night with a stroll along 5th Avenue. I got to see the beautiful store displays and the Rockefeller Christmas Tree, which was breathtaking. Manhattan (or the city as we refer to it here) was full of people out and about, even in late hours. In some places it was very crowded and hard to walk through but that's to be expected during the holiday season. All in all a great birthday!