Surprise!!!!!!!

Shan got me good that's for sure.... So, Thursday Jan 28Th is my 50Th birthday, and Saturday at lunch Shan asked me to be home and be ready at 2:30 because she has a small birthday surprise for me. I figured it couldn't be that big since we had plans to go to movies that night and I'm in shorts and T shirt. Boy was I wrong. Well we got in the car and headed north on the freeway. I kept trying to guess what we were doing, and where we were going. Her clues were, its romantic, and only take a few hrs. So we got into Portland, and Shan directed me downtown to the Hotel Lucia. Its a great hotel with lots of style, where we stayed once before and we love it there. I'm still in the dark on whats really happening, Shan told me she would tell me the plan once we were in the bar having a beer. Secretly she has packed a bag for us to stay over night and go out to a romantic dinner. She's soooo sneaky. So we hang out in our room, its so cool, and get dressed up for a great romantic dinner atop a high rise, downtown Portland (Portland City Grill). We get there and our reservations are for a window booth for the birthday boy view. We walk into the dinning room, its kinda dark, and I'm checking out the view, "stellar", but I didn't see any window booths open, that's when I look to the other side of the aisle and see a whole table with menus up to there faces.... well surprise!!! It's my friends!!! Thanks Marty and Kathy, Jamison and Ali, Cwis and Brandee, and Ty, my buddies, for coming and the fun that we had. After dinner we went to some really great bars, one was like an airport called Departure it was so cool. We stayed out late and had a blast. I have not had that much fun or laughed that hard for a long time. The pictures speak for themselves. We probably had more fun then we should have. Thanks to Shan too, for a great birthday present, you had me totally surprised. So fifty doesn't seem so bad when you got a super great wife, and super great friends to share with.