Hubby's 38th Birthday

 Hubby celebrated his 38th birthday on October 3rd which fell on a Wednesday. He was working from home on that day and I had lectures at university. I was out of the house from 11.00 am till 6.00 pm. It is a change for me as I am normally home on Wednesdays when he is home. University life means lots of travelling - technically classes start at 1.15 pm and end at 3.00 pm but I take up to four hours in travelling time. I was home at 6.00 pm because I went to buy hubby a birthday cake.

I got hubby a cream chocolate cake from the department store HEMA in the center of Alkmaar upon reaching the train station. Hubby was pleasantly surprised. He was still working at the computer and we had the cake as our tea. Hubby had to continue working still after that.

His mother had dropped by earlier in the afternoon to wish him happy birthday and to give him a present of a flower arrangement with decorative fans on it which were on closer view, banknotes folded creatively into fans.

She had also bought him half a birthday cake. So we had plenty of cake to eat. It was nice that both cakes were of different flavours - the cake that his mother bought was a pure chocolate cake.

We went out for dinner in the Thai restaurant in Alkmaar at 8.30 pm. We were fortunate that the rain had just stopped. We ordered Thai chicken curry in the war. It is a chicken dish with three different types of curry making the same dish. I thought that the curries will be served separately but I think three different curries were mixed all into one plate.

 Perhaps that's why they called it chicken in the war.

Our other dish was a pork curry dish served in a clay pot, while the last dish was a tauhu (bean curd) chilly salad dish. We had our meals with rice.

The chicken in the war was really spicy but I enjoyed it a lot. So was the salad dish.

In the middle of the night, I had a terrible tummy ache from all the chilly. Hubby's tummy was not feeling too great the next day either.

But we had a nice time together in the restaurant. Hubby was feeling more festive now. I had initially bought hubby a computer game "Mists of Pandaria" extension set for his World of Warcraft. I was surprised to know that he actually had this game already, so I had to change it at the shop the next day for a refund. Nevertheless hubby was happy that I thought of something that he liked. He knew that I feel that sometimes he plays too much games.

In the end, I got hubby some shower gel from Nivea as I ran out of ideas of what hubby might want. I was not sure what other computer games he might like for I hardly know any games unless he tells me about it.

We are going to England, in particular London to celebrate his birthday again in conjunction with his sister and nephew's birthday next Friday. We are looking forward to the trip and I plan to give hubby another nice dinner since we had tummy upsets from the Thai dinner.

Food may come and food may go, but birthdays with hubby must be perfect in my opinion. Hubby is fond of Asian food and I am pleased. I am fond of Dutch / Western food now and hubby is neither pleased or angry. He says "just be yourself and that is the best of all." How sweet.

Although it is already two weeks since his birthday, I wish hubby the greatest birthday yet and may all his dreams come true! Your wife will see to it...