All of the celebrations were fun….for Amy’s birthday, the kids stayed home with a sitter while we went out to dinner with friends downtown. It was a fun, laid back night. For Nate’s birthday, we had lasagna (his request for his birthday dinner) and cake at home, opened presents, and again, kept it pretty low key. I’m sure by next year when he turns four, he’ll want a real party but until then, we’ll enjoy small family parties, instead! For our anniversary, we always said we’d do something big for the 10th one! We figured we’d go on a trip without the kids to Mexico or somewhere fun for a long weekend. But really, can you top Bangkok for an exotic location to spend your anniversary? There was no trip, but we did go downtown to the Hilton that is right on the river. We had an awesome steak dinner in the restaurant that overlooks the river from about the 10th or 12th floor, then headed up to the bar on the very top of the hotel (36th floor) to check out the view! Imagine our surprise when fireworks started going off right outside the window at eye level where we were sitting! (No, Rick didn’t arrange them for our anniversary! ;) Someone was getting married across the river and they were setting off fireworks to celebrate!)Thanksgiving was kind of strange! Since, as Rick says, the pilgrims didn’t land in Thailand, there is no official celebration here! So that Thursday, the kids had school and Rick had work. He did take off early, though, so that we could have our turkey dinner with the works (the turkey alone, a 12 lb Butterball, was a whopping $42 – OUCH!) and all eat together (normally he gets home about 6:45 or 7:00, after the kids and I have eaten!) And that was pretty much it for Thanksgiving – it didn’t feel like much of a holiday!
Here’s a few pictures from Nate’s birthday – notice the painfully cheesey smile! (sorry, no pics of my birthday or our anniversary!)
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