Saturday June 12th-
Today I turned 21. Not a big deal here. Not a big deal to me, but everyone made me feel so special and I couldn't help but smile when I went to bed last night:) Mark and Emily made me a homemade peanut butter cheesecake and surprised me with it on Friday morning before class. Oh, and yes I said peanut butter and cheesecake in the same sentence. OMG and I almost forgot to say that they added an Oreo crust! I mean, that is just sick. Sickly awesome!!
After the dinner party and movie that same night I was completely satisfied.
Anyways, the day of. ok, I'm focused (the cheesecake had me thinking). Saturday was such a nice day. Em, Tayler and I woke up early, got coffee (so yummy, Tiramisu flavored!) and hoped on the train to Sweden to shop. The weather really help out for us. It would rain for maybe 3 minutes and then be sunny and beautiful. I've given up on the wind thing here..the flat land really has no control on the gusts that send little children flying through the air.
Ok, quick side story. The three of us were sitting at lunch and I was staring out the window at the people walking by and the wind was movin. I happened to look at the perfect moment when these kids and their parents walked by this huge fountain and the wind just whoooshhhed on and all of this water came flying out and super soaked them all. I had to laugh. Sorry cute Swedish family. You'll look back and laugh, I promise.
Back on track. So the three of us just walked around Malmo Sweden and did some shopping. I lucked out and got good deals on a belt, dress, and skirt and the others got a few cute things too. Like I said we had the best lunch. The spinach and ricotta pasta I had was to. die. for. We all loved our food and it was so nice to sit and chat with the girls. Tayler had to head back and Em and I stayed and walked around a bit more and soaked in our Swedish trip.
On the way back we even had more of an adventure! We knew our stop was next and so we had all of our stuff in hand. Norreport was called and we stood up and walked towards the door. This man freaking ran in the door as it was closing, blocking our way out and his bag gets stuck. Ha. So he gets it out and Em is frantically pushing the door open button because we're stuck inside and she is pushing and pushing and looking make at me wide eyed going "Brrriitt!!" and all I can do is laugh hysterically at the situation. This poor girl is on the other side of the door staring at us like we're crazy, I'm peeing my pants, this old man is standing behind us trying to speak in Danish and throwing us his hands, and Em is still pushing away.
We were convinced that the train patrol would come around check our ticket and say, "well well well ladies, looks like you missed your stop," and fine us because that does happen and they had checked our tickets 2 times during our trip there and once on our way back prior to the mishap. Lucky for us, we hoped off at the next stop and no ticket was given.
Not lucky for us, we had to walk 25 minutes back to Norreport in the 80 mph wind, but we laughed the whole way back.
Once we got back both of us relaxed. Everyone insisted that we go to dinner and I'm happy they did because if I didn't do anything for the bday I knew I would have regretted it.
Em, Jess, Mark, and I went to Nyhavn, which is right on the harbor and we ate at this little seafood place on the canal. After we got seated we started talking to the older couple next to us and found out, that contrary to our belief, they were also Americans. He was on business and his wife got to come along (as per the usual, they had money I'm assuming). They were so sweet and we talked for awhile about where we were from, they granddaughter, and my gang brought up that it was my 21st birthday.
Jess ordered a bottle of Prosecco Champagne for the four of us. We sat and enjoyed the bottle and talked amongst ourselves and the couple next to us. Right before we ordered and the couple was getting ready to leave, he signaled the waiter to come over and asked to have the Champagne moved to his bill (we ordered cheap for the menu which was a nice $85).
It was so sweet and just such a nice start to the meal. He absolutely did not have to do that, but we all appreciated it non the less.
I started with some of the best bruschetta I've ever had. Then I ordered a salmon pasta dish which came and looked mouth watering. We were all enjoying each other and it was just such a great meal of laughing, talking (well all but Jess...no voice), eating, and drinking. One thing I did say was how I thought my dish was a little fishy tasting considering that salmon, in my opinion, is a mild fish. I boxed half and Mark, Em, and I headed home to enjoy a piece of cheesecake.
The three of us watched US verse England in the World cup and talked about our trip to come. It really was a fun finish to a great birthday.
3:30am- I wake up feeling nauseous and go to the bathroom and get sick. I proceed to be sick for 3 hours. Damn food poisoning. I knew the fish and cream sauce didn't taste right. A girl didn't even get sick from alcohol on her 21st (2 glasses of champagne wouldn't do that to me). Figures, the food would bring me down:)
P.S. Thanks to everyone who made my birthday special. Even though I don't like to be the center of attention and stuff....It really means a lot to me.
P.P.S I only took one picture on my birthday and it was at dinner of the four of us and unfortunately it's on my camera which won't upload pictures to my computer...sooo you'll just have to imagine it:)
P.P.P.S. Don't you just want to eat that "googled" red velvet piece of cake?!!!
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