Celebrating My Birthday!

My birthday falls in the middle of December a month that is always crazy (when I was in college my birthday would always fall right between classes ending and finals starting).  Even though my birthday was last month I still wanted to share how I celebrated. My actual birthday fell on a Tuesday this year. So on my actual birthday I had to work. Then I just went out to eat with my mom and step-father.

I celebrated my birthday with my bf the weekend before. We did a overnight trip down to Atlantic City and stayed at Revel, the newest hotel on the boardwalk that opened up in 2012.  Since we stayed on a Sunday night we were able to get the room for a pretty reasonable price which included 2 drinks from one of the bars and room service for breakfast the next morning. If you can travel at off peak times definitely do it,  you can end up saving a lot!

 The hotel itself was huge and gorgeous. Also it being decorated for for the holidays was a added bonus. Unfortunately the weather when we were down there was rainy and cold. So when we did venture out onto the boardwalk and to the other hotels we didn't stay out long and we quickly returned to our hotel.

Our room was pretty awesome too. Very modern. With the TV remote you could control all the lights in the room! Also all the rooms have doorbells. Even though it was rainy out I took a picture of the view from our room.

Good thing I did, the next morning when we woke up it was so foggy you could not see a thing out the window.

I also was super excited to find that the little soaps, shampoo & conditioner, and lotion they leave you in the bathroom were from Bath & Body Works! 

After we checked out our room, we had a late lunch, and explored the hotel.Then we ventured outside but like I said returned not to long after. We then got dressed for dinner. Since I was celebrating my birthday I thought it would be nice to dress up a bit. I wore a lace dress (the belt came with it) that I got at Kohls, some black tights and black heels that I have had forever.

My bf had on dress pants and a nice button up shirt. I kept my makeup and jewelry pretty simple, and just wore my hair down. 

We ate at one of the many restaurants in the hotel.The food was very good, (sorry I forgot to take a picture but I had meatloaf). We also had some yummy Sorbet for dessert. After dinner we walked around a the hotel some more. This hotel has so many lounge type sitting areas, we joked that we should have tried to take pictures of us sitting in each area. Then we had our drinks that came with the room package. 

I told the bartender what kind of drinks I like and he made me one that he had come up with himself so it has no name. It was very good though!

Once it got past midnight we decided to call it a night. The next morning we had room service for breakfast. My first time ever having room service. It was also yummy! The picture I took on my phone didn't really come out so I am not going to post it but I had waffles and my bf had french toast and we split a order of turkey sausage. 

After we checked out and put our bags in the car we came back in so we could get each other a memento from the gift store. I got my bf a shot glass because he has a collection and I usually get him one when we go somewhere new. And he got me this t shirt. I thought it was fitting since we had room service for breakfast. 

 He also got us each fake casino chips with Revel on them and I got a postcard with the hotel on it.

And that was how I celebrated my birthday with my bf. I will leave you now with a picture I took when were driving there of a restaurant we passed.

Till next time,

Amber