Having a July birthday, I take it for granted that it's generally something to celebrate. Even being two days before Independence Day, it's still generally and event, since 7/4 is not generally a holiday associated with gift giving or religion (unless 'Merica is your religion). But my darling wife Diana's birthday is January 9, and it gets sucked into the holiday vortex.
This year, her special day seemed almost destined to go unnoticed beyond a relatively small gift that I wasn't supposed to buy her in the first place. She received a sophisticated sewing machine as a multi-gift-giving day present, so I wasn't supposed to get her anything else. I still got her a Pandora charm, because her bracelet needed more bling.
In any case, I found out last month that I'd be going to Cincy to shoot some video of roller coaster manufacturing stuff, and given the uniqueness of it, she insisted I go. Then, I realized that I should really get a room and go down the night before, and then a friend did me a solid with a reduced rate at Great Wolf Lodge. Before you know it, I was bringing the whole family down!
So as it turned out, Diana got to wake up on her birthday on a 24-hour vacation of sorts! She had some quality time with Simon in a water park, which he still isn't crazy about. The cool thing is that we also got to scope out a potential place for future getaways.
This weekend, we're going to do some additional cool stuff, and my mom will be staying with us, so hopefully we can sneak out for a date night.
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