The Bisson's: Birthday Fun!

Well as many of you know, I wasn't quite sure how my birthday plans were going to turn out this week due to the typhoon! We were in TCORR3 status which mean a we could have very strong winds (over 50 mph) within 48-hours. This immediately puts all the pilots on standby incase they need to evac the planes. Luckily, Joe didn't have to evac and I was able to spend my actual birthday with him! We originally had planned to go to dinner, but the winds were pretty strong and it was raining pretty hard so we just decided to stay in and have cake and just hangout.

Joe definitely spoiled me this year! I think he was trying to make-up for not being there for my birthday last year (he was in Altus, OK for training). He bought me a beautiful ring from Tiffany's and a few other things along with not one, but three really sweet birthday cards! He out did himself this year! Oh and he bought me a yummy ice-cream cake from Baskin Robins! My favorite!

My friend Susan was sweet enough to plan a big birthday dinner for me and Christian (another good friend of ours in the squadron). We ended up having about 24 people show up and we had a great time!! We went to the Barrel Restaurant which has such yummy food! It was super busy so it took quite some time to get our food out, but it was fun to catch-up with everyone and just hang-out! The only problem with that restaurant is they don't do separate checks... so as you can imagine with 24 people, we had quite the bill! Complicated but with over $400 worth of Yen collected in hand, we settled the bill and moved the party over to a local bar near the Seawall. It ended up being a relaxing night, having some drinks while chatting with friends. I'm not sure if it's working full-time or just getting older, but staying out "late" is more like 12am and then I'm completley exhausted!!! Back in college the nights were only starting at that time!!!

But all in all, I had a great birthday and am so thankful for all the great friends we have made here!!! It makes it a lot easier being so far away from family and friends back in the states!!