Happy Birthday To Me! (A Month Ago)

You know what happened a month ago that I didn't blog about? My birthday. It was a packed weekend, full of goodness.

Friday we went out for drinks and a movie with some friends (totally unplanned, totally fun). Saturday was spent in Seattle.

Sunday I went to a Jogo Gym BBQ.

Monday was a holiday, and Art's family came up, and his mom taught us to play Mahjong.

I think that's the best birthday yet. Here are some pictures (they may or may not be in order).

The flowers Art bought me, and had them delivered to me at the office.

On Saturday we went to the Seattle Science Center. This was the butterfly museum. I saw these big beautiful blue butterflies in there (live ones) but I didn't get a good picture of them. So I had to take a picture of the pinned ones.

These next butterfly pictures are of live ones. They just fly and flit all around you. It's so cool! I think this one is called an Owl Eye?

A Zebra butterfly?

Another Owl Eye.

Monarch.

I saw this one hatch! It had a hard time coming out of its cocoon.

A Tiger butterfly? Clearly I'm not up on my butterfly names. Whatever. They were cool.

Space Needle.

You really can spin a 4000 pound rock!

These are called the "Pillars of Community"

This is back to Friday morning. This is what I looked like on my birthday.

Oops. These next ones are backwards. My birthday cake my mom-in-law made me.

I'm laughing in this pictures because they were singing, but no two people were hitting the same notes.

Back to Saturday night! (I told you these weren't in order.) Art took me to The Melting Pot, a fondue place. You guys. BEST. DINNER. I've EVER HAD. Amazing experience. Also expensive. But totally worth it.

They started us out with a cheese fondue. Following that was a salad.

Then meat fondue. (These pictures are not my own, btw.) We didn't get all the meat pictured below, but they do give you about seven different dipping sauces. And bottomless vegetables. We couldn't get enough of the mushrooms for some reason. They were amazing, cooked in oil, and filled with cream cheese.

Then dessert fondue.

On top of the dessert fondue, the waiter brought me three HUGE chocolate covered strawberries with a tiny brownie in the middle, and in the brownie was a candle, because it was my birthday! I loved it. And look at that dessert! They don't just give you fruit. They give you marshmallows and rice krispie treats, and cheesecake, and regular cake, and oh my word it was heaven.

Yeah. That was my birthday. It's going to be hard to top that one. And now I need to do something equally amazing for Art's birthday. And I suck at planning these things. I have five months to figure it out. Ideas?