WENDY'S BIRTHDAY

so, yesterday was my roommate wendy's birthday. happy birthday one day late wendy!!!

thursday night we told wendy that we were going to go out to dinner to celebrate her birthday, but we had really planned a surprise party at yael's at 7pm. well, so wendy, her friend jonathan, and i went grocery shopping before we were to meet and we took a super long time. we got more stuff than we've ever gotten before and jonathan ended up spending like $250 on groceries and stuff. he filled up a cart all to himself and had more stuff than wendy and i had in our cart that we were sharing. anyways, so not only did we take a long time in the store, but we took a long time checking out since we also had to bag all the groceries and then help jonathan take his groceries up three flights of stairs before we could come back and carry two loads of our own groceries and put them away all before getting ready to go to yael's. meanwhile, we were in touch with yael, who was becoming impatient and wanting us to hurry since they were hungry. so, after being like an hour or so late, since we had to wait a few minutes for jonathan, we finally made our way to yael's. we ate dinner and played two rounds of pin the tail on the donkey, which was lots of fun. yael made a homemade cake and we ate that and ice cream and then she had to kick us out since she still had stuff to do and then wake up super early to be in napa to watch four hours of surgery.

so yeah, that was wendy's surprise birthday party.

yesterday morning it was raining, ick. bri came by early so we could walk over to take the wept at 8:30am. the girl there scared us, but when we actually took it, it didn't seem to be so bad. bri and i ended up choosing the same question and writing similar things. anyways, so we finished that and hoped we passed and then made our way back to the apartment. by this time, wendy was up and she opened her cards and gifts and then we went to mcdonalds to get breakfast on our way to the city. well, it was raining and kinda bad on our way to the city, but we made it there alright and went to the exploratorium. that was fun. there was so much to do there, we didn't get to see everything, and if you ever go, might i suggest you don't look in the eyepiece that says to look in it and push the button that triggers a super bright flash of light. i accidentally pressed it a second time, which, one was enough to blind me in the first place and yeah, i couldn't see for quite a while after that. bri did it too and she had much the same experience that i had. wendy, luckily, did not do that one. but yeah, you might not want to do that one cause i ended up getting a bad headache between my eyes and after finishing the visual section that was way too visually stimulating, i felt dizzy and lightheaded. so, when we went upstairs, bri and i had to sit down and rest while wendy went and checked things out. when wendy had seen the things she had wanted, we decided we were wall hungry and went back downstairs to get something to eat. i got a hot dog, chips, and a soda. it was pretty good. i hadn't had a hot dog in a while. not since they had free ones here at school. afterwards, we made our way out and over to the japanese tea gardens, where wendy really wanted to go. we spent about an hour there and then came back to the apartment and had cake (a really yummy strawberry cake with strawberries that wendy helped me make and let me frost the day before) before bri had to leave for home.

so, i hope that wendy had a good fun birthday this year. we haven't even broken open the sparkling cider yet...