B-D-day!

So I pretty much just had the best birthday ever. It was about a million percent better than I was planning on, mostly because I have the best sister ever. And some really wonderful friends. I woke up to the phone ringing at about 8:30. I considered not answering it and just keep sleeping. Who ever heard of waking up so early on a birthday? But I'm glad I answered it, because it turns out it was Megan, calling to tell me that there was something on my doorstep. And there was something on my doorstep--a cute little sister with a big present in her hands. How great is she? She took pity on my sad little life and took the day off to hang out with me on my birthday. And it was quite the marathon day.

We felt like we did a whole week of birthday celebration because the day felt so long

(it wasn't quite "mud-packed Monday,

double feature Tuesday,

Sephora Wednesday,

complementary makeover Thursday,

big fat fabulous Friday,"

though in retrospect...we almost covered a lot of these. odd.).

The weather changed a few times, we changed a few times, and it was just like this crazy time-space-birthday-continuum. Hooray for extra long birth-days. :)

We started off the rainy day here:

With Laurel!

Eating the most delicious strawberry/nutella crepes

and frites:

Due to some, uh, scheduling conflicts, we ended up at another crepe place about 45 minutes later, this time with the dad.

Where we ate some more delicious crepes! This time we got a s'more crepe, to try and diversify, but we should've just stuck with the strawberry/nutella. We ate some of dad's though, and it was de-lish.

They also had these way good ham, egg, and cheese crepes. Seriously good.

Who has been to this random owl/crepe place? It's kind of adorable. Or weird. Can't decide. But I did like the tree in the middle of the room.

After breakfast number 2 (sorry dad! It was good though!!)

Then we went to one of my favorite stores, the DI. I may or may not have gotten a dress there. I don't normally shop at the DI, promise. But it was cute and from H&M. You know, originally.

Went back to my apartment, where Megan's friend came over and gave us birthday haircuts (random much?) while we watched 27 Dresses and I studied for my last French final. Maybe we should've saved this movie for my 27th birthday?

We went up to campus for my final. Good time. Meh. Finals were so much worse this semester than last semester, which is so weird because I felt like all my classes were so much easier. Whatev. Then we went up and Megan met some of my French professors. We walked around the bookstore for a bit, but I couldn't find the book that I wanted--a book of walking tours in Paris. That's right. Remember how I'm going to be walking all up and down Paris this summer? Hear that, finals? Jerks. Wish the final had resembled something like this:

Because I would've aced that. But it was fun learning about contemporary French civilization this semester. Great preparation also. In fact, I'm pretty sure I'm 100% better prepared to vote in the upcoming French presidential elections than I am for the US elections. Good thing.

And I am now reading this book for fun. It's great.

Back to the birthday. The afternoon turned out so beautiful, though it was much later than the weather people had predicted, that Megan and I took a bike ride along the Provo River Trail. My favorite thing ever! I was telling her about how I feel like as children we were conditioned to not like sports or outdoorsy things (because we're girls, after all), but bike riding is one outdoor thing that I adore. I just love it. I think one reason I love it so much is that bike riding + summertime remind me of one of my all-time favorite summertime movies, Now and Then (how many guesses did that take us, Meg?). We started singing "knock three times on the ceiling..." at the same time a few times. Yeah. Same person.

It was just a bit cold. Hence the red noses.

How I jimmy-rigged the basket that I bought like a year ago. Yes that's the rope from my lu'au dress plus the ribbon from my birthday balloons. Wonder how long it will hold.

I also LOVE bridges, just fyi.

By this time, we'd burned off most of our breakfasts and were starving. We considered every option that Provo has to offer (and it's quite the diverse selection), but I finally settled, strangely, on Red Robin. And I was happy I chose it because it was so good.

Strawberry lemonade. So not a water day.

Not sure how much of our food we actually tasted, since it was more like inhaling at this point, but from what I remember it was excellent. I got the california chicken sandwich. I'd highly recommend it, especially when you're starving.

Red Robin happens to be located, conveniently, at the mall. So, of course, we had to do a little birthday shopping. I almost got a few shirts, but I ended up with some new shoes. No, I can't afford it. Yes, it was my birthday. So happy birthday to me. :)

THEN (I know, right? How can the day still be going on?!) we went with Jenny to the creamery for some dessert. I love BYU creamery ice cream. I got my old favorite, Earnestly Chocolate, and Megan got my current fav, Mint Brownie. If you're still searching for a late birthday present for me, let me just say. Mint Brownie.

And THEN we went to the dollar theater and saw The Vow. Um, who has seen this? We were obsessed with it. Such a freaking cute movie. I loved it. And may or may not have been crying quite hard at the end. What are the odds that I'll wake up one day and Channing Tatum will be telling me that I've lost my memory and he's my husband? Ah. If only...

And no, it was not on purpose that the two movies we watched today were wedding-themed. Totally by chance.

So yeah. Marathon birthday, right? It was awesome. It doesn't feel real that I get older every year, especially since this is what I still think: (listen to me! and just imagine the real words from the movie). But that's life. And it's great. Thanks to everyone for making it such a big fat fabulous birthday! It's going to be a great year!