Happy Birthday Adam!

Adam turned a still-youthful (!) 33 years old the day after Vicky landed in snowy Burlington. Unbeknown to him, plans were afoot to celebrate his big day in style...

The day kicked off with a sneaky lie-in and Jayne taking the birthday boy up a cup of tea in bed (almost unheard of these days!) while he opened cards and pressies.

Then there was the traditional birthday breakfast... toasted English muffin with Philadelphia cream cheese topped with a thick slice of grilled tomato and Canadian bacon (well, of course it would have been British if only we coul dget it here!). Mmmm. We only ever have that on birthday's and it always feels like such a treat. :)

Then of course the poor love had to go to work :( so it was action stations back at the house...

Jayne ran out to the supermarket (well, when I say ran... I mean drive of course) to pick up the missing ingredients to make Adam's birthday cake. Vicky by this time was up and out of bed - a well-deserved lie-in after all her travels and headache etc.

A couple of hours later and the carrot cake was almost done when Adam called to ask when and where we were meeting for his birthday lunch! Now, how's a girl supposed to put off the birthday boy without upsetting him?? (I mentioned there were other plans afoot...) Well, it ain't easy that's for sure and so, after explaining that I was still waiting for something to come out of the oven and that I didn't think we could make lunch until 2pm, a slightly miffed Adam finally got off the phone.

Vicky and I then packed the still-warm cake into the car and made it unseen into Adam's lab office for 2pm as agreed with 'his girls' who'd come up with the idea of surprising him with a little afternoon birthday party. The little tricksters hadn't even wished him a happy birthday and pretended they didn't know it was such an occasion, even tho Adam openly admitted to dropping many hints in the days leading up to it. :)

Anyway, while I iced the cake Jana (Adam's post-doc) was on the phone to Adam trying to get him up to the lab under the pretence that the Environmental Health Officers had turned up and needed to speak to him urgently. Hehehe... well, it would have been funny had we been able to get him on the phone. Jana ended up going down to his office, writing him a note and slamming it down on his desk in an agitated manner so that he would get off the phone with whoever he was speaking to...

Adam's lab, L to R: Courtney, Jana, Beth, Sarah

(Jana at this point was still trying to get through to Adam on the phone)

While we were waiting I managed to catch Vic's reaction to being back in a lab after having turned to the dark side (errm, computers and stuff) for so long... ;)

It only took a couple of minutes for Adam to appear in the lab looking somewhat harrassed. Oh dear! What meanies we are to wind him up on his birthday. ;) Still, he soon cheered up when he saw the cake and cheeseboard, and his lab all singing him Happy Birthday. :)

Gotcha! Happy Birthday Dr Lock.

Don't forget to make a wish.

That night Adam and I celebrated in unique style by going to our first birthing class! To make up for the unusual birthday outing we went for a slap up meal at The Bearded Frog the following night... fab company, food and cocktails!

Vicky, Adam and a rather nice Mojito (snapped with the camera phone hence the pants pic quality)

Adam's special Birthday dessert - tangerine and liquorice pannacotta on a raspberry coulis. Mmmm! The choccie writing was pretty tasty too. :) No Hershey's on this plate!