Happy Birthday Uche!

Yesterday was Uche's birthday, but the festivities started Sundayt night. We invited some people from church over for some pizza and cake. We had a nice time visiting with everyone and we had two cakes. The one above was brought by our friend, and I made one that tasted good, but looked a little weird, so no pictures to protect the creator of the tasty but crazy looking cake.

Here's the whole group. Do I stand out or what??? I need to start tanning or something... I'm glowing! :) This group of people are dear friends who we will miss when we leave...

The next day we spent the morning in the library as papers don't write themselves. But I convinced Uche that he had to give me the afternoon and evening for a surprise outing. So after lunch we headed to Megamall about 1/2 hour taxi ride away. We took taxis to and from the mall because it was Uche's birthday, and we were celebrating, so no public transportation for us! We spent sometime walking around the mall and enjoying the fact that it was air conditioned and pretty empty as it was Monday afternoon. We looked for a couple things Uche has been wanting to buy, but didn't find exactly what he wanted. We spent about an hour at a coffee shop relaxing and talking. I ordered Uche's favorite green tea latte, and he was nice enough to share it with me.

Here I am tasting the green tea latte.... hmmmm... not my favorite, but the birthday boy enjoyed it!

Afterwards we went to watch Green Zone. Uche enjoys movies with car chases and explosions, and this movie had both! After the movie we walked over to a fancy hotel to eat dinner at their buffet. This was the main surprise of the day. I did a little research and found out that they're considered one of the best, if not the best, buffet in town, and Uche enjoys buffets, so perfect birthday dinner.

The buffet did not disappoint! They had all kinds of Asian food as well as continental favorites. They even had a cheese tray! Cheese is a luxury in the Philippines. The dessert section was incredible, and I wished I hadn't gone for seconds on the roast beef with all the choices! Uche enjoyed halo halo, his favorite Filipino dessert. The whole atmosphere was very luxurious and we felt super spoiled during our time there. After dinner we walked back to the mall to catch a taxi home. We were so stuffed! Uche couldn't stand up straight until we had walked a block... so we got our money's worth!! It was a nice day we spent together and it was really nice to spoil ourselves a little bit. I suppose I shouldn't have gotten to enjoy it as much as I did because it wasn't my birthday.... We don't have any pictures from the buffet we were too busy eating!!

Here he is the birthday boy! My handsome wonderful husband. His birthday is also the anniversary of the day Uche proposed to me. Seven years ago he asked will you and I said yes, of course! He's the best husband I could've imagined, and I'm so blessed to be able to spend my life with him! Wow! That's a lot of exclamation points in one paragraph, but that's how great my husband is! He's a million billion exclamation points! :)