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| Hangin' out around the new fire pit |
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| Brandy and Jay playing cornhole with the home made set by Ryan (yes, this game is actually called CORNHOLE) |
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| Stephanie and Lisbeth bringing out the cake |
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| What an awesome cake! |
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| It took me a while to stop laughing! That is some serious creativity! |
This was my first complete birthday I've ever spent in Seattle and it was a good one! In 2008 I was here for the first 13 hours of my birthday, but then I proceeded to get on a plane to Seoul, South Korea en route to Russia. I crossed the international date line where I was cheated out of the other 11 hours. I was also studying for comps at the time and had to say goodbye to Ryan for three months. Needless to say, this one was a little better!
After we got home from camping in Vantage, we started the party at the El Norte Lounge (a new-ish bar in our neighborhood that I'd been wanting to check out), came home and had a fire in the brand new fire pit (made by Ryan 10 minutes before the party), played cornhole (what backyard party is complete without cornhole?), ate s'mores (I can't sit around a fire without eating marshmallows and chocolate), and cake.
Lisbeth told me weeks ago that she wanted to make a cake for my birthday. In the days leading up to my birthday she kept telling me that she thought I was REALLY going to like my cake. I thought "of course I'm going to like it, it's cake!" Plus, I already knew that Lisbeth is a good baker. I thought she must have had something up her sleeve. When they brought it out, I was totally blown away! If you know what my dissertation is about, then you know I study shells. Pretty dang clever! Apparently Stephanie and Lisbeth felt under a lot of pressure to come up with something good for my cake since I like to decorate cakes for other people's parties. They went into a bakery and ordered a marzipan figure based on
the Birth of Venus painting by Botticelli. Apparently it's difficult to make a marzipan figure stand up, so this is as close as they could get. It thought it was amazing. And I was quite touched that they went out and ordered such a special cake decoration just for me! Lisbeth did bake the cake herself and it was delicious.
Lovely bog; I came upon this blog searching for travel and food from Google. How I wish I can get to Seattle someday, it's the place I like for it's known for the music and style called Grunge. Cheers!:-)
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoy our blog! I've heard about the Grunge scene in the 90's...but I happen to know pretty much nothing else about it. I suppose it's a shame I live in Seattle and am not really into the music scene, but there are just so many other things to do!
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