My baby turns 18 tomorrow

I feel so old! :cry

Not really. I kind of don't feel that much older than I did when I was her age. Okay, well, that's not true, but I don't feel like I'm going to be 50 in just 3 years.

Time has gone crazy fast and we are doing the whole college search and application thing.

Tonight we are going to take her out to a nice dinner at a place called the Continental in Philadelphia because she has plans with friends tomorrow for her actual birthday and apparently they are more fun than us. LOL

 

You feel old????? My little one turns 27 this Oct. She is planning on going to Africa for a year. And at 18, you will never be as much fun as her friends.

 

Yikes! I can't even imagine the day when mine is talking about going away for a year on her own!

So of course I'm looking at the drink menu at this place tonight. :-D They've got some great names for some of them. I'm thinking I'll be able to find something yummy:



Twizzle. 9/45
Smirnoff citrus,
strawberry, lemon

Hawaii 5-O. 9/45
Smirnoff vanilla,
pineapple, lime

Mid-town Mocha. 9/45
espresso liqueur, Stoli,
chocolate milk

Sourpuss. 10/50
Smirnoff, St. Germain,
champagne

Wild Child. 13/65
Ciroc red berry, wildberry
cordial, lemon, cranberry

The Socialite. 10
Tito’s, blueberry, fresh lime,
champagne

Pomargarita. 10/50
Sauza silver, pomegranate
cordial, lime

Shanghai . 10/50
Bacardi O, St. Germain,
green tea

Perfect Pear. 11
Grey Goose la poire,
St. Germain, lemon, soda

Melon Drop . 9/45
Bacardi watermelon rum,
fresh lemon, cranberry

Champagne-O-Rama. 10
Smirnoff raspberry, champagne,
grenadine-sugar rim

Mexico City Cosmo . 11/55
Cuervo Gold, Grand
Marnier, cranberry, lime

Violet Beauregarde. 10/50
blueberry vodka,
crème de violette, lemon

Wink. 11/55
Absolut ruby red, Combier,
cranberry

Açai Pirinha . 11
Veev açai, fresh lime

The Astronaut. 9/45
Peachka vodka, tang

Capri Cooler . 11
the adult version of your
favorite lunch treat. Even
served in a pouch with
Absolut Cherry Cran

Dirty Shirley . 10
Grey Goose cherry noir,
sprite, grenadine

Ecto-One . 9/45
melon liqueur, Bacardi O,
sour, club

Good Lei . 9
a better version of that fruit
punch you drank as a kid

Old Fashioned. 13
Maker’s Mark,
home-cured cherries

Last Word. 13
Hendrick’s, chartreuse,
marashino, lime

Two Islands. 11
Tullamore Dew, Pimm’s,
ginger beer

Moscow Mule. 11
Ketel One, lime, housemade
ginger beer

Aviation . 12
Tanqueray 10, Luxardo
maraschino liqueur,
crème de violette, fresh
lemon

Pimm’s Cup. 10
Pimm’s no. 1 cup, lime,
sparkling wine, cucumber

Negroni. 13
Bombay Sapphire, Campari,
sweet vermouth

 

Ummm........one of each?? :-D

 

Well, I can cross anything with Gin in it off my list. I drank a little too much of that one night in college. LOL

 

If I based it on that, I wouldn't drink at all. :-D

 

The older we get the faster time flies :-D

I hope you have a lovely meal when you go out. That drink list, all those flavours! Damn, bet you won't know what to choose. :-D

 

Know how you feel Laura as my nieces are tuning into the teen era!

Happy Birthday to your daughter and I wish her well in life and work, if she is anything like mom she will turn out to be a goodun!

 

Ha! Well, sometimes you just have to pick the worst of the bunch. But damn that was a bad night! roflmao

Kid isn't gone just yet, E. We've got one more year of high school and then 4 of college and then who knows after that. LOL

Omg...so speaking of no well drinks. You can see the prices on the drinks I copied from the menu. They aren't cheap, but actually not bad for Philly prices. So, I order something not on the menu...Margarita made with Patron. Holy shit...we get the bill...$17!!!! :eek I'm glad I only had one and switched to beer!

Ain't that the truth, Em. :-D

It was a great meal. I didn't get one of those drinks after all, but my hubby got the Hawaii 5-0 LOL

Thanks hitest! Mine has no idea on what she wants to do. She has another year of high school, so has some time. The only thing she knows is she wants to go to college. From there it's a mystery.

Thanks Barry!

haha on the g/f! roflmao Good for you!

And please do not mention the G word anymore!

Yeah, well no career path has been chosen here. I have no doubt it will all work out for her though. She's a really good kid (oops, technically an adult now).

Yikes....teen girls are evil, Dave! LOL


Thanks everyone! We had a great dinner last night. We ordered tons of small plate items and shared everything...including Octopus. :eek

Today is the actual birthday and I'm sure she has lots of plans. I know she is going to a friend's house for a party there for her.

We are really lucky. She really is a wonderful kid. Sweet, sensitive, smart.

 

Sound like she is on the road to success, just need a bit of ruthlessness in there as well, to fend off the idiots in life. Hope she has a great evening PARTY ON!!!

I guess that you both raised your kids like you are in life, good honest folk that do well for others and work hard... traits that are really the cornerstone of society.

 

She can be tough as nails when she has to be and doesn't suffer idiots well. Both of my girls have a low tolerance for bs and drama.

And I hope so on that last part, Dave. We try. Its really hard now days with all the internet/social media stuff. You just hope you instilled enough in them to make the right decisions.

 

GOOD STUFF for the girls.... need the mix in life to be great humanitarian but tough in some respects.

Sounds like you have done all you both can Laura to instil morals and good humanity to the girls and yeah social media is a plague in reality these days but if you take it with a pinch of salt then you are a better person.

I don't like social media now, not as it used to be, trolls ahoy... LinkedIn is my main social media outlet now.

 

At least they are funny cute 'friends'! LOL

Thanks Don.

I just ordered a regular run of the mill $17 margarita. :eek (Patron tequila...and I had no idea it would cost that much). My husband got the Hawaii 5-0 which was vanilla vodka, pineapple and lime.

 

Thanks sikvik. Yep, I was thinking of my sweet sixteen thread when I put this up yesterday. I swear it seems like 2 months ago, not 2 years ago.

She's actually looking to go out of state and go south anywhere from North Carolina, South Caroline or Virginia (3 1/2 to 10 drive). I guess she wants to get away from the cold weather (preferable to thinking she wants to get away from us LOL)

Wow. 16 for you, huh? Where does she want to go? My girls attend boarding school here (20 minutes from home) and they have a huge amount of international students. I was just facebook messaging this morning with their friend from South Korea who we are a host family for. His sister is 15 and I was asking if she was going to be coming over as well and he said his dad wouldn't let a daughter travel abroad and his mom would be too lonely. I thought that was cute.

I didn't order one of those yummy sounding drinks. I just ended up with a margarita. Not very fun and much more expensive than I would have anticipated. :-D

 

It was a very cool ambiance, but no margarita is worth that much! I was shocked because the drink menu prices were your typical Philly prices ($10-13). This is the place (we were actually sitting right at that round booth with the highchair is):

 

$17 a drink, I know I'm rich but holey hell not that rich to pay for those drinks, rather hire a bar outright! Hahha come to my house as I have all drinks and good spirits collection, and NO you will never get coke in your Jack D, ... sacrilege

WOw that place looks really cool Laura.

Sikvik neat on the US education, not great in the pocket but to ne honest best start in life is to have education and from a US school, well a sure leg up in the corporate market, so goof luck to her as I know if she devoted to learning as you are she will do brilliant.

 

Geezzz....around here you can buy a bottle of wine for alittle over $17 and take the bottle with you when you leave. How much was the bill?

 

It really is a neat place for sure.

And I know on the drink! Craziness. I wouldn't even expect to pay that in New York City for a margarita!

If I'm ever in your area, I'll take you up on that, Dave! LOL

I love our restaurants in our area because there are a ton of bring your own bottle of wine. You can bring a nice bottle and not have to pay the restaurant.

There were 5 of us, so I know the bill was a lot. You order a lot of things to share and I think we got about 8 dishes, plus 3 desserts....and a dessert martini for me (Godiva Chocolate liquor and vodka).:-D There were the 4 of us and then my daughter's best friend. I'm not sure what the bill was since Vic took care of paying it, but I will tell you that that margarita was the most expensive item we got...no lie. I think the most expensive food item was probably about $12 or $13.

 

Laura if you Vic and the girls are in my neck of the woods, gladly take you out for food and drinks in my city.

Chocolate and vodka, that's a weird one, I like vodka but that mix, I guess is an acquired taste.

@Vik really good for your daughter as that school has ties with Cambridge which is good, I wish her well in her studies to further her career, does she have a path in place as in medicine, technology etc?

 

They do, kat...and are the cause of so many different emotions. Love, pride, frustration, laughter. It crazy...all great, but crazy. LOL

The food was really good.

Wow...those are some insane prices! And here Australia is a place I've always wanted to go. I'm not sure I could afford to eat and drink! Is it like that everywhere? I guess it's because everything is imported?

Good luck with all the school stuff with your daughter.

Okay, so between you and joffa, I suppose I shouldn't be complaining about my $17 drink. Sounds like my anomaly is your usual.

I'll take you up on that.

It's a chocolate liquor so definitely a dessert. Add some vodka and a martini glass with a little cocoa powder around the rim...yum! And I'm thinking less calories than the chocolate explosion cake my girls got.