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SweetPoosy -> RE: What do you do to celebrate your birthday? (12/30/2009 2:24:33 AM)
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How do I celebrate my birthday? Sit around pissing and moaning about how everyone is more worried about Christmas, which falls 12 days after mine. Yeah, my birthdays suck...with the exception of my 16th, which was really quite nice.
Now, since I totally bollixed up my daughter's 13th birthday because I was stuck making another kid's birthday cake...I made certain that her 16th was awesome. I had a limo pick her friends up from school, then they came to my home and changed into their evening clothes. We took the ferry over to Seattle, where we had reservations at the "best" restaurant in town. I made her cake for her...even the pastry chef at the restaurant was highly impressed, and afterward we cruised around letting the kids have fun because they were in a limo!
Then for my daughter's 18th birthday, I flew her to London where we spent a couple of days before going to Venice to board a cruise ship for 2 weeks. She turned 18 somewhere over the Atlantic.
For my other daughter, we did things like taking the whole lot of her friends (there were only 10 girls in her class) to Disneyland, where we spent two days and one night.
I did love being wealthy!
For my ex, one year we "kidnapped" his little stuffed Scooby Doo, and he had to go on a scavenger hunt to find him. We went to our usual breakfast place, where (after I left...we usually took separate cars) the waitress gave him the information that Scooby had been kidnapped, and it was up to him to find him. He was ordered to go from place to place, and wherever he went, he had to collect the next clue and a Scooby snack.
The first clue said to go to our chiropractor, where he got an adjustment, and a Scooby snack and the next clue which said that the kidnappers had left something at the vet, so there he went...where he got another Scooby snack, and a blow up sheep, indicating that the kidnappers were probably Australian, and a clue which told him to go to our bank to withdraw ransom money and get his next clue. He was also to bring the sheep, because maybe he could arrange for a trade!
At the bank, he got a Scooby video, another Scooby Snack, and the next clue which lead him to the local Spa, because he needed a massage after all of the hard work he was doing! While he was in there, we took his truck, got it cleaned inside and out, and returned it with a "Mystery Machine" window cling on the driver's window. His clue there told him to go home, and get cleaned up and changed...and I had scheduled my weekly housekeeper for that day, so she could be there to give him the next clue.
Meanwhile, the girls and I had taken off to a town about 45 minutes away, where we took pictures of Scooby outside of a certain restaurant, all tied and wrapped with duct tape. Yes, Scooby is a bit of a sub, OK? We then took the pics to the 1 hour place where we usually had them developed, and dropped them off. After that, we went and picked up the cake and balloons .
Meanwhile, hubby had taken his shower, and the housekeeper had laid out his clothing for the evening...Scooby shirt, Scooby boxers, Scooby socks (and trousers, of course!)...and the next to last clue, which told him to go to the photo place and pick up some pictures which would give him the last clue to find where the kidnappers could be found. Then before he got out of the shower, she took off so he couldn't ask her any questions!
Now, I have to say that by this time, he was actually getting a bit hacked, what with being ordered around on a wild goose chase, but he was a good sport, and kept going. We lived in a fairly small community, and none of these places were even 2 miles apart, so it wasn't as if he was driving for hours either...and the local businesses were really good sports about helping me...and the girls at the Vet gave him a huge ration of shit about his blow up sheep!
So anyway, to end my sordid tale, he got the pictures which showed the abducted Scooby outside of (where else?) The Outback restaurant! So he drove there and met us, and we were joined by the housekeeper and her son. Of course we had a Scooby cake, too.
Now, honestly, while it was nice to have plenty of money to do the Scavenger hunt, it really isn't necessary to have LOTS of money. To be honest, the whole shebang probably ran less than $200 including dinner for 6. The fun was in the thinking up of the storyline, and making a logical progression to the hunt, and thereby making the B-day person know that a lot of planning and thought, and love had gone into it. It could be done on a shoestring, and bring the Birthday person to a park for a BBQ, or to a bar for just drinks and cake.
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