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A hammock!

And here I am sitting in my new hammock, surfing the web on my new netbook.

Life is good.

A Mugen Pop Pop. Basically it's electronic fake bubble wrap to pop. Mine's pink.

Yes, really.

Here's the product page from Bandai. Here's a review.

On day 11 I was presented with a handmade card/booklet that my wife and youngest daughter put together. Also in the envelope was a photo of my daughter that I could put in my cube at work. It was all very cute.

We went to see Star Trek. It was great!

On day 9 I got a present for myself. Fedex showed up with my new Dell netbook. I got a Vostro a90n with 1GB RAM and a 16GB SSD. It runs Ubuntu Netbook Remix (I installed the new 9.04 version). (If the preceding two sentences sounded like jibberish, don't worry. It's a tiny notebook computer that runs Linux and starts up really fast). It was a great deal when I bought it and I'm really enjoying it.

Happy birthday to me!

On day 8 my wife and youngest daughter showed up shortly after lunch with a balloon attached to a pizza box. Inside the box was a pizza sized cookie with cream cheese icing and fresh fruit slices arranged on top.

Day 7 was a Sunday. We went to church as usual. During priesthood opening exercises my wife came marching in with the entire primary! She insisted that I join them at the front of the chapel. She then proceeded to have the primary children sing a birthday song to the bishop and myself (his birthday is the same as mine). Afterward she had two of the children pass around cookies.

On day 6 we slept in, checked out of the hotel and went to Downtown Disney. We spent some time at the Lego store (the kids loved that) and then went over to the Rainforest Cafe for lunch. We really enjoyed it. Then we drove home. As you can see, someone was busy decorating my car while we were gone!

Day 5 was spent in the Magic Kingdom. As this was my actual birthday, I wore my button again. Interestingly I was not wished happy birthday with the same consistency as at Epcot, but it was still a lot of fun. We had lunch at the Plaza, including desert (happy birthday to me). While we were there the Mayor of Main Street came in and wished me a happy birthday. He then proceeded to announce that I was going to pick up everyone's bill! Then he clarified that I would do that next year at this time.

After lunch we went back to the hotel for a "rest." What we really ended up doing was swimming in the pool for about a half hour, then going back to the park. It was a long day.

We did end up seeing some really good fireworks!

On day 4 we went to a character breakfast at a Disney resort. As we where going in the hostess asked "Whose birthday is it?" My wife pointed me out and the hostess gave me a button with my name on it. All the Disney employees at the breakfast wished me "happy birthday" when they saw the button. Then we went to Epcot.

My wife insisted that I continue to wear the button. The guy at the monorail station wished me a happy birthday. The guy searching our bags before we went through the gate wished me a happy birthday. The lady at the gate wished me a happy birthday. (You can probably see where this is going.) Throughout the entire day Disney employees wished me happy birthday. It was weird at first. Then it got to be funny. After a while it became impressive. Even the people walking around with brooms would pause to wish me happy birthday. My wife would smirk every time. All I could say was "Thank you" and keep going.

We had a great time. We even saw our youngest get transformed into a princess kitty! It was really funny when she put her mouse ear hat on with that face paint.