We had CRAB LEGS, shrimp, potato Salad, muscadine wine, Hello Kitty cake (from Sam's Club. Yes!) and Chocolate Covered Strawberry ice cream from Blue Bell. And presents!
Here are the pictures for your viewing enjoyment:
Since we've all gotten so old, we have two candles representing the decades to the left, and the white candles on the right represent the years beyond the decade. This many candles indicates 27 years. And yes, those are Hello Kitty RINGS!
I want to tell you a secret that you probably already know, but it must be said: I hate being sung to, and I particularly hate the Happy Birthday song. But, alas, it is a necessary evil and I try to react like an adult instead of crying and pounding my fits into the cake and climbing under the table yelling "NO!" with my fingers in my ears. So there's that, and that's what the weird fake-smile is about in the above picture. My family is actually exceptionally good at singing it and making it sound fantastic, despite my feelings.
Hello Kitty rings!!
While this picture was being taken, while I was trying to ready my camera, I lost my grip on it and threw it into the side of the cake pretty violently. I licked the icing off the side of my camera, and then no one wanted to use it to take a picture. Oh well.
Keens!
Marcus got me a new travel iPod player to replace the one that's dying a slow, painful death in the bathroom!
I don't know how many times Mama made us kiss so that she could take a picture, but I was expecting it to start to feel like Kate and William. It didn't. It just looks great, right?
Daddy enjoying his snow crab legs!!!!!!
Me enjoying my crab legs, and Marcus . . . watching happily?
So, I don't really have any affinity for Hello Kitty--it made it's comeback in popularity with little girls when I was in high school, so it was sort of lost on me, but I DO love sheet cake from Sam's and we were avoiding chocolate cake since Mama and I are tag-teaming it with migraines lately. According to my folks, it was either Hello Kitty or Spiderman. :-) They clearly made the right choice.
Maybe I'll keep updating my blog with vacation happenings and pictures. Maybe not. You'll just have to wait and see. And if it's June or July, and I haven't posted anything yet, you can probably go ahead and quit worrying about it.
