Dawn McCoy Instagram – My birthday week was capped off in the sweetest – and most lovely of style – in Austin, celebrating my actual birthday with my best friend of 35 years (since age 11!) – @suzanne_karotkin at the stunning @commodoreperryauberge, where she is the Experience Manager. And what a birthday experience she gave me!🎂 Fireside Christmas cocktails that tasted JUST like Christmas… Grilled olives with Texas pecans… New friendships forged in front of the fire… A decadent dinner at @lutiesaustin… And a scrumptious red velvet birthday cake from @quacksbakery. But the best part? Just getting to be TOGETHER and talk for hours about the beautiful and ugly and wonderful and hard and unexpected and magical and just ALL OF IT we could fit in there before our magical pumpkins took us back to our magical children. This is my favorite way to do a birthday. Love you, @suzanne_karotkin – and I already can’t wait to get back to @commodoreperryauberge! Commodore Perry Estate, Auberge Resorts Collection