Mommy's Yakudoshi Party

In Japanese tradition, this is a big year for mommy. It is a yakudoshi year, one that is suppose to bring bad luck. In order to prevent this bad luck from taking place, it is customary to have what is called a Yakudoshi (birthday) Party.

Mommy isn't superstitious nor is she very traditional ... but daddy decided that he would throw her a party anyway. Mommy chose one of her favorite restaurants and invited her closest friends. The part was Sunday night, after Aunty Tammy had left.

Everything was going as planned. Aunty Cindi had helped daddy with party favors and the menu was set ... it was all a matter of everyone just showing up to have a good time.

We got there a bit early since we had some setting up to do. To kill sometime, we went to check out Best Buy. While we were looking around, the lights went out. Complete blackout. We were quickly escorted out of the store. After scoping out the place, it appeared the only the one quardrant was out of power. And low and behold it was the one with our restaurant, Straits Cafe. We quickly went to see what was up.

Unfortunately, they did not have an ETA on the power outage and could not seat or serve anymore people. They gave us to option to transfer our parties reservation to their "sister" restaurant Sino ... which is what we ended up doing.

Mommy quickly called everyone to tell them the change of plans and we were on our way. Appetizers started arriving shortly after everyone was seated. It was quite yummy. We had all sorts of dim sum favorites and then some. Dinner was also a feast. We ordered lots and lots of food and ended up with leftovers for home.

Tyler did pretty well and entertained himself by running around and playing with Haylie. A little too much running though. He ended up barfing all over the floor. :( Time to clean up and head out. We got our to go boxes and went right outside for a quick dessert at the infamous Pinkberry. It was okay, but mommy doesn't know what all the fuss is about. It's not to die for! At least she didn't think so. But it was a great way to end the night. We bid everyone goodbye and headed home.

At home, mommy couldn't find her cell phone. She searched and searched and decided she must have left it at the restaurant. Of course, by the time she called no one picked up. *sigh*

So to sum it up ... her Yakudoshi party, which was suppose to ward away bad luck, seemed to have brought bad luck upon her. How ironic. Hopefully this just means she got it all out of the way and the rest of 2009 will be a piece of cake. :)