Birthdays

Birthdays here at camp are always fun and momentous occasions. For campers, it's a day of cake and skipping around the room. For us staff members, it's that and more. We generally target something defining of that staff member at that moment in time, be it hedonism or just outright embarrassing them because they do not like to be the center of attention. For my 21st two years ago, we had something equivalent to a toga party.

My 23rd birthday this year was very low key, however, because as Blink 182 says: Nobody likes you when you're 23! For one of our more recent birthdays, I made a rat cake. The recipient of the cake/birthday boy has been chasing down a giant rat that is living in our dark room and has been evading us for some time now. So it was only appropriate that he received a rat cake (red velvet cake covered in gray fondant) along with a rat pinata ..among other things.

Who knows what the next birthday will bring.

Oh wait, that's today.

(happy birthday rachel!!)

go shorty, it's your birthday

Yesterday was Cynthia's 21st birthday! To celebrate, we went out to dinner at Busboy's and Poets (her favorite by far...soon to be mine) and had unnaturally colored girly drinks and way too much delicious food. However, they were out of sweet potato fries. Again. I'm beginning to believe they don't exist there and they put it on their menu to see the disappointed faces of their customers when they reveal that they're out of them. Regardless, Bb&p's food is absolutely delicious and you should go if you haven't been.

Anyhoo, we would have continued the night with a search for a pina colada, but we were too stuffed to really go anywhere but the metro. Talk about a crazy 21st (just kidding, it was really great)

happy birthday!!