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The Bunch Celebrate A's Birthday

MiMi helped wrap A's gift. ♥️

A's birthday brings around the closing celebrations of birthday week. This year her birthday fell on one of her days off so it started off with a bang. We all went with her to one of her spin classes. While we were there, D broke the bike and noone could easily fix it and for the second time in 2 weeks I heard someone tell him "huh, that's never happened before". The other time was during our rafting trip when he broke the paddle in half right before we were about to get started on the course. Luckily, the class wasn't full so he got on another bike and away we went. New spin classes are WAY different than cycling classes back 20 years ago. Most of it is in the dark now and there's choreography. It definitely takes getting use to. However, it's a great way to spend time doing something A enjoys and keeps us in shape as bonus, though this class was extra hard! In fact, both A and D took naps when we got home.😂 They did have cheesecake first though. A wanted pineapple upside down cake from the Cheesecake Factory. C turned us on to this dessert. He ordered it one day when he wanted pineapple upside down cake and H hadn't made it in awhile. Little did he know he had found the best dessert ever! Each slice costs $11.95 plus tax or you can order a whole one for $66.95 with no sales tax. The whole cheesecake has 12 slices. I could have spent 50 dollars on 4 slices or do what I did and spend $66.95 on one cheesecake and freeze the other slices for later. Basically, they mark up each cheesecake by over $76 when they divide it up! That seems a little ridiculous. After a good long nap, D and A were ready to go to our next adventure. We had tickets at Fair Park to see the Sound of Music. Since T had to go to school plus the fact he hates it when we drag him to musicals, we gave A's boyfriend his ticket and the four of us headed to Fair Park. The show was AMAZING!! It wasn't better than the Outsiders, but I don't think anything can beat that. It was in the top 5 for sure though. It was a late night and with traffic it was about 2 hours each way. We had a wonderful time and more importantly A had a wonderful birthday.

Aunt C sent a cute 3D card.

D and I bought her some cycling shoes. T cleaned her car. His was probably the best gift! Her car was so dirty, it took him 2 mornings to get it all cleaned up. She hadn't cleaned it in probably a year. I don't understand that. I wash my car like once a week.

The cycling class decorated A's locker for her birthday.

It was a hard, but good class.

We earned that cheesecake.

A and her boyfriend. I couldn't believe he wore a jacket! Summer is brutal this year and we're still hitting triple digits. We made him take it off inside so he wouldn't die.

We got a great deal on 4 tickets. We were in the balcony, but dead center. They were pretty good seats.

It was super fun and D also really liked it.

The state fair was setting up so there were headless dinosaurs and bodyless dinosaurs everywhere!😂

T practicing what he is learning on D.

We got 12 drops.😔 At least it knocked the temperature down to 77 degrees for the afternoon.


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