Thank you!

Thanks to everyone who remembered my birthday yesterday! It was a cold and rainy day, but Josh and I had a really fun time celebrating anyway. I woke up to a surprise call on my cell phone from my parents and Grant, Sam, and Lydia….5 Woodworths on speaker phone is a very interesting experience! (but a fun one, of course!) Josh and I went out to dinner at a Thai food restaurant in town, where I got my “usual” – green curry and rice and Josh got a fun noodle dish. Then we did some window shopping at the mall and ended up at the bakery to pick out a slice of cake for each of us! (All of the malls and department stores in Japan have a grocery store in the basement, so you can always pick up little things when you need them –it’s great!)
When we went home we opened some gifts and birthday cards that had come in the mail and enjoyed our cake. Josh was very brave to do all of his birthday shopping at stores in town (not on base!)…so that was fun! Even though I was very far from most of my favorite people – it was a very nice day of birthday events!