Birthday Outing

With my birthday on Sunday this year it made for an extra fun birthday weekend!

We were planning on going camping in the Adirondacks, but the weather didn't look very promising on Friday night.

We decided to move that to another weekend and do a fun day trip to Niagara Falls instead!

We left Ithaca early Saturday morning and made our way to the falls in about 3 hours

The highlight was definitely the "Maid of the Mist" boat that took us right next to the falls on either side of the border!

There were some pretty amazing sights from up top and down in the water!

After enjoying our time around sunny Niagara we drove to Rochester and hit up the mall

I was shocked when I saw a Delias store! I knew that they had a few stores but had never seen one before. I was excited to go inside as I used to shop their catalog back in the day!!
(Please tell me some of you know what I'm talking about)

Then we went to Macaroni Grill for dinner and a birthday serenade.

Sunday morning brought the big day! We had birthday cinnamon rolls, went to church, and opened some presents.

Ben gave me the last piece of my "tennis set"
(I received the racket for Christmas and tennis skirt for Valentines day)
Apparently he wants me "to go pro" haha

Ben decided to test out our grill and cook us steak :)

It was a success! We had a delicious meal and saved room for fresh lemon raspberry cake!

Ben even remembered to sing happy birthday this year, and didn't demand me to blow out the candles like last year :)

HOORAY FOR SUMMER BIRTHDAYS!