Birthday and Mother's Day celebration

So, I mentioned that Nathan and the boys had something planned for yesterday to celebrate both my birthday and Mother's Day, and indeed they did. :)

We started the day at the movie theater and enjoyed the new Spider-Man movie, Across the Spider-Verse. It was awesome! Then we went home briefly before heading up to Old Town to do the Fort Collins Old Town Food Tour that they'd booked us on. It turned out to be us, the tour guide, and four others. We wandered Old Town, stopping at five different locations for good eats (and drinks for Nathan and I at three of the stops since he'd added on the cocktail ticket for us) and learning interesting facts and history about Old Town while we were at it. It was truly fabulous! 

We appreciated the time and experience together and loved our tour guide, Tricia, and the company's approach to food tours...promoting locally owned businesses and providing a range of options along the tour--including places where you can just grab a quick bite, places appropriate for special occasions, places for great drinks, places for dessert, etc. 

Considering that we've lived here almost 21 years, we were delighted to visit places we haven't been before. (To be fair, there are a LOT of restaurants in Fort Collins. It's overwhelming at times...enough that we end up frequenting the same places rather than trying new places. Nathan and I had been to two of the five places on our tour, so three were new to us.)

Specifically, we had pizza at Slyce, appetizers and drinks at Whiskey Steaks (The Still), green chili fries and drinks at Locust Cider, pies at Ginger & Baker, and pasta and drinks at Ace Gillett's. Even Micah got full, lol! (And, believe us, he would have eaten more if he'd been able.) Along the way, we learned some great tips and history about each restaurant, too. Highly recommended!

And then we came home and pretty much crashed in a lovely food coma. We watched a show and decided the firepit and s'mores planned for the evening was actually too much food at that point so just chilled. A wonderful birthday and Mother's Day celebration!