Random Flashback for Friday 1/8/10

I just got home from one of my new birthday traditions of the last seven or eight years -- enjoying my tour of Chicago steakhouses, one at a time (to start year 38 I was with my South Bend family at Gene and Georgettis's) -- but this pic goes back to the first bday party I had after striking out on my own. So for my eighteenth during my freshman year at college, I was in the basement of the Woodwards with friends -- and we were all eating cake!