Birthday at the Red Hen

We have been trying to get Ellis (and one day Anders too) experiences for her birthday rather than more plastic junk from China that makes noise and makes me want to murder someone.  So for her birthday Ellis and Mike got to go to the Red Hen in DC's Bloomingdale neighborhood.  

One of DC's coolest new restaurants, Red Hen is hard to score a reservation at, so we showed up early and scored a walk-in seat at the bar where Ellis could see everything going on in the open kitchen (complete with wood fired grill) and the chef orchestrating the night's dishes.

She dressed up fancy,

made nice for the camera,

and had an absolutely huge ice cream sundae for dessert.