HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Didn't I do a wonderful job on the cake? Well that's not entirely true. I baked it, the misses really wanted to frost it, so she did cuz who am I to tell her what to do and what not to do on her birthday right? Yellow cake, chocolate frosting. Good stuff. All the Maine relatives came by to help celebrate with us, which was just great. I gotta say, we got really lucky with these particular uncle's and their families up here. They really welcomed us right in...
So the day started out with Sarah opening up the gifts I gave her (new bathrobe, which she'll return while we're in LL Bean Tuesday, a radio that her iPod plugs into so she can listen to it while working, and of course scratch tickets, which she won $30 off!) She seemed to really like the radio which was good, but the bathrobe wasn't as nice as I thought it was going to be, so she'll return it and get something better. Then we went to Nicky's for breakfast. During breakfast, her phone rang and it was my uncle and his family singing Happy Birthday! No hello, nothing, just started right in with the singing. A trip to Target and the grocery store, and home to relax for the day. Really the perfect Sunday.

So on an amusing note, Sarah and I talked about going to NY for the weekend (this weekend) a while ago, but decided to save the money and not go. And its a good thing we did because not only are the Broadway stagehands on strike (we would have seen a show), but Serendipity 3 we shut down due to health code violations. (Serendipity is the place with the really really really great frozen hot chocolate. Don't think I'll be going there anytime soon though.)
Overall, a very good weekend. Heading to Freeport for the night Tuesday, then to Boston for the rest of the week. See you soon...