My 27th Birthday

I wanted to thank all of my friends and family for wishing me Happy Birthday on the 25th.  My first birthday in a new state was intimidating but I felt the love and appreciated the kind words from everybody. 

To be honest, as my birthday approached, I was a little hesitant in hoping for a super great day.  Birthdays have always been held to certain expectations in my mind and I wondered what my first birthday away from my family would be like.  Here's how it went down:

I spent the morning working and my co-workers were very sweet and wished me happy birthday and asked what Reed and I had planned.  I told them I'd be leaving work early in order for Reed to take me.....ICE SKATING!!!  (I loooooove ice skating)    Then Reed came to my work weirdly early and I was like "I'm working until noon" and he was all like "oh, I can just hang around until it's time to go".  Hmmm, weird.  Then my boss comes in and goes "birthday party time!" and I was super surprised to see a fabulously delicious spread of goodies from Panera Bread and my very own Nothing Bundt Cake!  They presented me with a super cute card that they'd all signed and it really touched my heart to have such kind friends here in Vegas.  It turns out that Reed and my boss had been plotting this out for a while and that's why Reed was there so early. haha  What a sneaky sneak. :-)

After my work party, Reed loaded me and some extra thick socks into the car and we headed to the ice rink which is maybe a mile and a half away from our apartment.  (Now is my chance to become a professional figure skater....distance is not an obstacle anymore.  haha)  We walked in and this dude informed us that the public skate session was closed due to construction.  Bummer-oo!  Reed was super disappointed seeing as that was the big ticket item for the day. 

So we decided to head down to a few of my favorite casinos in order to see the shops and entertainment.  We went to the Venetian first and I loved watching the gondoliers and watching the street performers.  I'm sure Reed would rather have not done the window shopping but he kindly put up with it.  haha  Our favorite photographer has a gallery there and Reed and I both enjoyed wandering through and admiring the awesome photos.   After Venetian, we headed to the Bellagio where we ogled the worlds largest chocolate fountain, watched the birds fly in the gardens, and enjoyed the fountains show. 

We were both pretty tired at that point so we headed to Buffalo Wild Wings where we enjoyed a free meal thanks to our friends at Katastat Pools.  Reed has done some marketing work with them and they thanked us by giving us a yummy dinner.  I'd never been to Buffalo Wild Wings so I ordered a flatbread pizza and an order of wings.  OH MY GOODNESS....everything was sooooo yummy!  I loved how the wings tasted like they'd have that spicy kick but never did.  And their fries are the best ever.  Mmmm!  Reed told our server that it was my birthday so he brought us a gigantic piece of chocolate cake topped with a candle.  Reed sang me Happy Birthday and I made a wish.  To be honest, I can't remember what that wish was now.....but I bet it will come true. 

In the evening I enjoyed a phone call with my mummy and a few of my siblings.  I missed them a lot during my birthday.  I am learning (very slowly) that part of growing up is learning how to bloom where you're planted....fortunately I was planted in the same place as Reed because he makes every day perfect.

So that was my birthday.  It totally exceeded my expectations and now I am 27 and super old.  ;-)