In May of this year, I tacked on another decade. Laura was wonderful enough to organize a surprise visit to Rochester from a number of my friends who live all across the country. She hilariously spilled the beans about it, but it was just as well because it would have been impossible to coordinate it all in secret and without me taking off work or picking people up from the airport.
On Thursday afternoon I picked up people in Buffalo while Laura picked up and had lunch at Aladdin's (tasty Mediterranean place with great falafel) with people who flew into ROC. We grabbed some treats from Dogtown and the former Hollywood video down the street, and went to Magnolia's on Park Ave for pizza and some local brew.
We had some tasty beverages, talked about old times, reminisced about James' various injuries, and looked at some pics and goofed off well into the night.
The next day we had some delicious James Brown's breakfast and set out for Niagara Falls.
Most of us hadn't done the Maid of the Mist before, so we decided to try it out. We threw on our blue ponchos and sailed up close to the falls. It was crazy to see the water on all sides, and was incredibly loud and bumpy.
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| If you look really closely you can see us standing on the rocks under the falls |
On Sunday we made some breakfast casserole and then took a stroll through Highland park at the tail end of the Lilac Festival. The flowers were mostly gone and it was a little hot, so we didn't stay long. Had we known what the rest of the summer was going to be like we would have stayed out much longer!
Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! Thanks to my friends who were able to come visit! And thanks Laura for setting up this weekend!
Laura:
Thanks everyone for coming to visit! I am glad we were able to pull off this fun birthday "surprise" for Alex's birthday.
That really sounds like it was fun fun fun. Wish we could have been there too. That was really nice of Laura to set that all up. Great job.
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