Birthday Activities

A neighbor and Mark shared Saturday as their birthdays. However, they chose to celebrate in vastly different ways.

The neighbor's idea of a good birthday celebration included waking early, running 4 miles, biking 44 miles, enjoying brunch with friends, and then swimming 4 miles.

Mark's plan: Brunch sounded good.

Actually, we woke up early and did an Easter egg hunt at the neighbor's house (yes, the same neighbor who did all that physical activity also had time to hide eggs in the morning!).

Then, we were visited by the Guam Birthday Monitor Lizard. He didn't bring any gifts though.

Saturday afternoon, we headed to Tarza water park. It is a local water park with several slides and a lazy river. We arrived around 2:00, and the park closes at 4:00. That was just about the right amount of time though. We "convinced" (made) Olivia go down the slides a couple times, but she mainly wanted to circle the Lazy River over and over and over. We all had a good time though.

Then, that evening, Courtney arranged for a babysitter to watch Olivia while we went out to dinner. We enjoyed a good steak at Ruby Tuesdays, a decadent chocolate cake dessert, and a two-scoop ice cream birthday surprise. We made it back around 10, which was good since we had sunrise service the next day.