Ben's Birthday Bash

We celebrated Ben's birthday this week as he turned 28!

I took Ben to school on my way to work, then picked him up and had a yummy Panera birthday lunch!
Later that afternoon we did the first round of opening presents from the shrine...

The big surprise of the day was that my grandparents gave him tickets to the Harlem Globetrotters for that night!

sidenote.... I heard the Globetrotters were coming to Ithaca, on his birthday. He mentioned that would be fun and forgot about it. Then he sent me an email a few days before his birthday with a link to the ticket webpage saying "we should go for my birthday." I told him sorry and that I already had plans for his birthday night (just so happened to be for exactly what he wanted to do!)

So we had some more fun opening presents...

An "at home workout bar" hiding under the bed...and other fun stuff!

We had to do an early dinner to get to the game

We went to the new Italian restaurant close to our house

Then we headed to the Globetrotters at Cornell's basketball gym

Ben had never seen them before and we both had a fun time laughing and watching their skills

Then we hurried home to have Ben's choice cake: angel food cake with whip cream and strawberries!

Not your typical birthday cake, but it was pretty delicious in the end

The next day we had round #2 of present opening with gifts from my parents, his grandparents, etc..

It was a fun birthday...we sure do love celebrating!