Well, I had a GREAT birthday yesterday! It was a nice relaxing day. Hung out with the boys in the morning, surfing the Internet & just relaxing. Andrea had mowed the lawn the night before so I wouldn't have to do it on my birthday (isn't she a great wife!), so I had the luxury of not really having anything that just had to be done. I finished some writing in the afternoon that I had been hoping to get done this week and then Andrea and I went out last night. She had told me earlier in the week that she had "everything taken care of" for the evening & that I didn't have to worry about anything. Then, she totally surprised me! We headed out on the road, presumably to have dinner together out-of-town. She kept apologizing to me about not having planned well for my birthday, how she wish she'd done more, and how she just thought it would be nice to go out-of-town to have some time together - even if we weren't eating at a fancy restaurant. I didn't really suspect anything (although I wasn't sure why we were driving out-of-town over an hour to eat at Pizza Hut) because she did such a great job of lying to me & selling her story (is that a good thing?).

We pulled up to the Pizza Hut in Iola, KS, walked in, & sitting in a booth was my college roomate, Scott Cummings, and his wife Kristen! I did a double-take at first, but then started to clue in to what Andrea had done. She was pretty proud of herself for surprising me (not an easy thing to do - only the 2nd time in almost 8 years of being married). We had a great time visiting & catching up. For Andrea it had been 7 hears since she had seen them (since the day Scott & I graduated from college). I had seen them for a few hours a couple of years ago on a trip to Topeka.

All in all, it was a great 30th birthday! Gary should be here in an hour or so & then we head to the Ediger farm for verenikas! Yippee!