Woke up this morning, and I was older, a whole year older. Not that I mind, I usually can't remember my age, mostly because I don't really care. But Laura does. :) This morning, she went all out and cooked me an omlette for breakfast, with fresh eggs from a farmer friend. It had been a while; we don't eat eggs much because Laura's allergic, so this was a very nice treat. I opened some wonderful presents of books from Laura and her parents, all of which look interesting and I can't wait to read them all, and warm, fuzzy long-sleved shirts from my parents and brother's family, just in time for winter, I plan on wearing at least one a week.

My next surprize was Laura's offer to go play par 3 golf. We headed out to Vitense for a morning round. She was amazing for her first time on the links, and almost beat me. I made a few shots which were keepers, most of them nothing to brag about, and we had a great time just walking around outside and talking, and occasionally hitting a silly little ball towards a flag. Even with taking our time, we did manage to lap the elderly ladies in front of us...

Our next stop was to Pegasus Games. They have a great discount on your birthday, 20% off all purchases, so we picked up many new games for us and our friends, and some for gifts for people (we can't tell who or what). I'll blog more about them as we play them in the weeks to come.

Finally, after work, we headed out for dinner at Lombardino's, a local Italian spot on University avenue. It has good food for only slightly high prices, so it was a treat to say the least. We dived in early for some lightly fried calamari fritti, excellent with both the marinara and butter sauce. For dinner, we chose the eggplant parmesan with spaghettini marinara for Laura and a mushroom-sausage-fontina pizza for Mark. They were very tasty dishes and disappeared rather quickly. A great end to a wonderful birthday.