Happy Birthday, 80's Style

Last week it was Micah's birthday and I decided to throw her a surprise birthday party. (Perhaps I feel a little guilty for never being home!) She was completely surprised. She had no idea, it was pretty sweet. Anyway, Micah was born in the year 1980 so I threw her an 80's surprise party. Bart and I took her out for Indian Food (her favorite) to "celebrate her birthday". Meanwhile, everyone gathered in our little tiny house and waited. Bart drove down our driveway unusually fast and reckless to distract Micah from seeing the 15 cars parked behind our shed. She figured it out when we pulled up, but it was pretty darn sweet...

Everyone dressed in their 80's finest, we had Pac-Man Cake and went roller-skating. It was a hit. We all had quite a bit of fun.
I'm pretty pleased with the result. They got a little melty...I had to hide them in my car all day!
Micah's going for "girls just wanna have fun", while I'm going for the sophisticated and sexy real estate agent look.

What is it about those bad boys? Mmmm...

The King would have been pleased.

I'm thinking that MLK would have been pleased that I spent his birthday at one of the most gorgeous places on earth (Mt. Ranier)...with my favorite Pole (B), on a sunny and warm (50 degrees) winter day in Washington. Man, I love this place!

That's Mt. Adams in the background. Mt. Ranier is behind me..



So notice that there is absolutely no snow in the parking lot. It was such a beautiful, sunny day!



Bart is showing you just how much fun we were having.
(He has long arms=lots and lots of fun)

Mount "R" The peak is actually much farther away than it appears.

The white arrow shows our tracks--pretty fun! This was my second real backcountry snowboarding excursion. I love the snowboarding part...the hiking uphill--I'm still working on loving.

So we tried to make it all the way to Camp Muir, but the normal path was steep and icy so we couldn't make it without our ice axes. We actually watch two guys try it and they both almost fell pretty far. One lost his ski pole and had to hike down to get it, and the other fell and started sliding down--luckily he caught himself with his snowshoes before going too far.

Bottom Line. I love Washington. I think I'll stay here for a while!