happy birthday to me

Turning a year older is always buckets of fun, isn't it :)

Last year, I was whisked away on a surprise (I only found out at the airport) holiday to a 5-star resort and was given an orang utan for a year. Rode a horse on the beach. Jumped up and down (and up and down again) on a trampoline. A little hard to top that, but I manage.

Because the ADP electives timetable wasn't out, I kinda had to attend a class from 8 to 10 in the morning. The night before, I was up late watching football with my brother, and then when I went to bed, two friends called so I ended up sleeping late - which I made up for when I came home. That afternoon, I went to this spa that my mum's been to a few times. She gave me a gift voucher for a full body massage, which is something I've never had and she figured I needed (My dad bought me a t-shirt I'd seen the last time we were in Switzerland but didn't get and unfortunately, too big for me cuz my aunty told him it would shrink in the wash - it didn't - and a Venetian glass pendant from Venice). I'm prone to tension in my shoulders, so I was seriously looking forward to the experience.

It began with a floral foot bath. You sit with your feet immersed in a wooden tub of flowers in warm water. The masseuse then scrubs your feet (which felt a little strange and ticklish) and dries them off before leading you to your massage room. After getting undressed, you hop onto the mattress thing, face down. Below you is a bowl of flowers, and the lilting sounds of traditional music fill the air. Her fingers start working, and the scent of lemongrass oil fills the air. (Almost) Every square inch of me, from my toes to the top of my head. Then, she had me turn around and she worked her way up. All. Over. Again.

Bliss.

It ended with me attempting to sip some ginger tea. Bliss? Not so much :)

Later that evening, the family (or two of them, anyway) came over for what I call "feedy-feedy" after a family friend used this term to describe cutting the birthday cake and feeding a little of it to family members. We had chocolate cake =D

Dinner was with friends from uni and school in Antonio's (otherwise known as the family restaurant), which my friends have never been too. The starter was a mozarella thing, then we had pizza, fettucine carbonara, spaghetti bolognese, cannelloni and for dessert, apple pie and crème brûlée. After all that, we wandered over to TTDI Plaza and walked around (as usual) trying to decide where to go. We walked through two places - one was ridiculously loud (and not in a good way) and both were full of people waaaay older than us. We ended up back in Waikiki Too, where much of the music was waaaay older than us. The same live band was performing, and my friends got them to play Wonderwall and Happy Birthday.

At the end of the day, it didn't matter what I did. It was who I had around me (and of course, those who were there even though they weren't) that was most important. You know I love you guys. Xoxo.