I turned the big 29 this weekend. I didn’t make any plans to celebrate my birthday because the Joepinator insisted that he had it all under control. Joepinator loves surprises. This is why I keep his gifts and birthday plans a surprise for him every year even though I am usually dying to tell him. I hate surprises. Joep loves surprises. So he plans a surprise for me every year. Did I mention that I hate surprises? It is really hard being someone who hates surprises. Why? Because people who love surprises insist on surprising everyone and if you don’t like surprises you appear ungrateful. I’m not ungrateful. I love that Joep wants to do something nice for me. I just like to know what that something is in advance so that I can plan for it. Control freak? Anyone?
Anywhooooo – This year was similar to the many other birthday’s I have shared with Joep and incorporated Joep telling me throughout the week that he had a surprise and me getting concerned about what was in store for me.
I had nothing to worry about … this time ;p After a great dinner with the girls on Friday night I awoke on Saturday prepared for anything that Joep had in store for me. I was allowed to sleep in while Joep collected the car for us. Upon his return he packed our bag for the day and off we went.
First stop? Mikey & Anne-Marie’s house!! This was a great surprise because as you all know by now these 2 are one of our all time favourite couples. After packing the cooler into the car and piling in Joep announced that we would be going to Camp Fortune to go zip lining! This resulted in a great deal of excitement on my part. I have been dying to go zip lining since we moved here! For those of you who don’t know, zip lining involves climbing into very high trees with a harness attached to you and then climbing between these trees on wires OR attaching your harness pulley to a wire and zipping between the trees. It is super fun! It is also a little bit of hard work but totally worth it.
The drive out to Camp Fortune was uneventful apart from the extreme levels of excitement, loud music and various dance offs that occurred (I am not exaggerating …) and the high energy levels continued when we reached the camp and got harnessed up for our climb!
The next couple of hours were spent climbing between, hanging from and zipping across tree lines. It was just as much fun as I had hoped it would be!!
And the excitement didn’t stop there. After finishing our zip lining course we got back in the car and drove down to Britannia Yacht Club. A friend of Mikey & Anne-Marie’s whom we met at the wedding has access to sail boats that he takes out regularly. Mikey mentioned this to Joep when Joep was arranging for them to join us for the birthday festivities. Joep’s response to this was ‘I don’t want to impose … but I do’ and so we were invited along to go sailing!
This was incredible news. I LOVE going sailing! The weather however, was not on our side. Autumn is almost here and the weather is not as consistently good as we have gotten used to … having said that, we’ve had a good 4 months of incredible weather so I cannot complain! We had high hopes of the weather changing and the rain passing over, these hopes were continuously heightened by weather man Mike’s reassurance that it would pass over … he was correct! As we enjoyed a delicious picnic lunch under the marquee prepared by the Mc el Moth’s the rain passed over and just as we were all contentedly full we were able to head out on the water.
It was a great afternoon of sailing. The wind was good enough that we could pick up some speed. Our captain was more than competent and the company was fantastic. Joep spent a large portion of the afternoon sitting on the bow of the boat entertaining all of us with various random comments and raps about being on a boat with his flippy floppies … I don’t know. It was funny though! We had SUCH a great afternoon!
Birthday cake was eventually consumed and we all enjoyed my first few hours as a 29 year old before calling it a night at some stage in the early hours of the morning.
Sunday – The day of my ACTUAL birthday was spent recovering from the night before. I can’t bounce back like I used to. It must be old age.
It was worth it though. What a fantastic start to my year as a 29 year old. The last year has been one of the best one’s I’ve ever had. Moving to Canada, experiencing brand new adventures with my best pal Joepie, getting engaged and getting promoted. Not a bad year! I am intrigued to see if 29 can top it!
Joepinator you are a star and it was the best birthday ever. I couldn’t have planned it better myself!
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