Jar is in my top FIVE favorite restaurants in Los Angeles.

This is a bold statement, I realize.

And I owe it all to the pot roast pictured above. It’s HEAVEN ON A STICK.

We gathered tonight for a dual birthday celebration. Thankfully, Thelma and Louise chose a restaurant I adore otherwise I’d have to think long and hard about showing my pretty face there.

Jar hits all the right spots. One day I should order something other than the pot roast.

Before our lovely evening at Jar, some of us enjoyed a day on Lake Piru on our friend’s boat.

I need more friends with boats.

It should become more of a prerequisite for potential friendship.

Lake Piru is only 45 minutes north of LA and pretty damn…well, pretty!

We wake boarded and tubed (this is when you’re pulled on inner tubes at break neck speeds while the driver tries his darndest to cause permanent paralyzation) and had a picnic, while taking many dips in the water.

Which I was still somehow convinced was chock a block with dangerous sea snakes.

It was one of the best days I’ve had in a long time.