The Big 4-1!

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A week ago today, I was busy turning 41! :) Wanna see what I did?

Ryan got up early and went to get my favorite breakfast pizza so I could enjoy that!

I had the most delightful morning of resting, relaxing, watching TV, scrapbooking, and completely enjoying the day.

Ryan was still in the cornhole tournament at lunch time, so I went to work to watch and ended up warming up with him while he waited for the game to start. (We played cornhole on the ship on his birthday!)

My parents wanted to take me to coffee that afternoon, so we arranged to meet at a local shop called Big Ben. Random fact: the day before my birthday, Big Ben got hit by a car. Like the actual building! I'm not sure what happened...but it looked like either someone got the gas/brake confused or drive/reverse confused, because the hit came from a parking space. I was sure glad it didn't happen while we were there!

For the record, neither of my parents drink coffee, and I'm fairly certain my dad had never bee inside a coffee shop in his life. So you can better believe I documented!

Dad got Coke. LOL! (And he split a cinnamon roll with Mom.)

Mom got a frappe, which she didn't like quite as much as the ones from McDonald's, she said.

I stuck with my tried and true latte favorite:

Ryan actually got off work a little early that night, so we had extra time to celebrate! He told me he wanted to take me to Market Street Grill, which is a little local place in Wabash. But because it was actually a nice day, we decided to go over a little early and check out the river walk!

Dinner was SO GOOD!!!! We had the best waitress (which, let's face it, makes any dinner taste even better) and we loved everything we had.

Ryan got (based on the recommendation of someone he knows) the BLT soup for one of his sides, and he said it was really good. I got a salad, but I was so happy it was a nice, full salad, not like two pieces of lettuce and a shred of cheese as some house salad sides tend to be.

We both got the same entrée. It was called drunken chicken, and it was so good. (We each got the petite version, and it was still huge!) Ryan got his with rice, and mine was with veggies. I couldn't finish all of mine, so boxed leftovers for the win!

We don't normally get dessert when we go out to eat, but hello! Birthday!!!! So we each got pie and coffee. Coconut cream for Ryan and peanut butter for me.

Yeah I took over half my pie home too! Those pieces were HUGE!!!

We sat for a while, savoring our coffee, and then we headed home. It was a perfect day with the perfect ending:

I LOVE SUNSETS!!!!

And that was my birthday in a nutshell. A very. good. day.