June 28, 2010

• Birthday-Filled Weekend

  On Saturday, June (my "little" sister) turned 25. Johnny and I were delighted to be able to join in on her quarter-century celebration! We started the evening with a delicious meal at a Korean noodle house, where we feasted on dumplings, noodles and a Baskin-Robbins ice cream cake with chocolate chip ice cream layered on top of chocolate cake, with chocolate frosting. Yum!

  Me with the birthday girl; June's yummy cake; Johnny and I enjoy the kids-free evening out (many thanks to my mom for holding down the fort while the boys slept)!

   

  

  After dinner, we headed up to the ice rink. June and Charles had rented out the entire rink for an evening of broomball. We had to wait for the previous party to vacate the rink, so while we waited, I decided to try out the new, random "Hurricane Simulator" installed next to the rink. For $2, you can trap yourself in a phone-booth-sized stall and be subjected to 80-mph winds. The wind came down from the top, so if you huddled toward the bottom of the booth, it wasn't as dramatic. I was hoping it would be more dramatic! Instead I just felt like I was in a giant blow dryer.

  Look! Hurricane Simulator! And then me, escaping from the wind.

  

  Afterward, with my wind-blown hair. Who needs a blowout when you can just pay $2 for the Hurricane Simulator?

  

  I think Johnny took a video; I'll post it on here later. I hammed it up for the spectators (June's friends) by banging on the door while I was in there. Ha.

  Soon afterward, it was time to play broomball. For those of you who don't know, broomball is kind of like ice hockey, except you wear sneakers instead of skates, and you use a "broom" (really just a stick with a plastic piece at the end of it), and instead of a puck, you use a squishy ball. I haven't played since my Latin Club days in high school, and Johnny's never played. It was a lot of fun! Unfortunately, no one brought their cameras on the ice. We were all too busy playing. I worked up a sweat and shed my hoodie pretty quickly. The fact that we had to wear foam-padded helmets didn't help the sweat issue. Yuck! It was really fun, though.

  Johnny and I after broomball, with helmet hair; the ladies in our group (there was an equal number of guys)

  

  Earlier in the day, we participated in another birthday celebration ... this time for our friends Karthika and Peter's one-year-old, Logan! We had a lot of fun. The food was yummy, and Logan was ADORABLE as he ate cake for the first time. They had a nice little playroom inside, too, which was where Derek and Jack chilled most of the time.

  Jack, Derek and Logan, all fascinated with the packaging that Logan's gift came in!

  

  Here I am with the kids in the playroom.

  

  Between the two parties, June, Charles and my mom came over with a couple of presents for Jack: A Buzz Lightyear polo and Buzz Lightyear sunglasses! Jack's never worn sunglasses before, and upon putting them on, he commented, "It's dark!" We cracked up. Now he loves the sunglasses and goes around trying them on, proclaiming, "Look! I'm cute!" Oh boy.

  

  How cute is this pic of June and Jack?

  

  Hope everyone had a great weekend! We're so excited to be leaving on our road trip later this week.

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