Happy Quarter of a Century!

Well yesterday was my birthday and now I am officially 25 years of age.  Yesterday was a great birthday all in all.  I worked at 5am so that I would be done early and get to enjoy my day.  The morning shifts are hard to wake up for but once you're up they're really a lot of fun.  Unfortunately yesterday we had half of our co-workers come late.  One tried to get out of it by claiming to be "sick." He tried to garner sympathy from me but I wasn't dishing it out that morning. I told him that Steph and I had been there on time and it was my birthday and we had managed all the phones and guests by our selves so he could manage a few hours too.

After that my manager got me a big box of brownies and put two candles in them and sang Happy Birthday to me.  The brownies were yummy!  Then a few hours later just before a large group of guests were set to depart from the lobby to the train depot Steph managed to get them all coordinated to sing.  So I'm doing something else when I hear this loud hum then I realize then ENTIRE lobby is singing me Happy Birthday!  It was by far the most enjoyable embarrassing moment I've had thus far. After work I went back to my room to open a few packages that had arrived.  I got a pair of shoes from my parents (THANK YOU!), a jacket from George (THANK YOU!) and 3 Jane Austin books from Grandma Jane (THANK YOU!).  My backpacking pack, tent, sleeping bag and sleeping pad all showed up too so now I'm ready to get out into the wilderness!

I waited until around 8pm to have dinner at the Salmon Bake with some friends.  We stayed there until around 1am having some drinks and celebrating til my birthday was over.  Overall my 25th was a great day!  Now I have two days off and am trying to figure out what I want to do.  Today I'm thinking about going into the park and taking pictures then tomorrow maybe getting a nice long hike in before doing a Jeep Safari Monday evening.  I'll post more on my activities tomorrow night.  Hope all is well in the lower 48 and thank you for the birthday wishes!