My 26th Birthday!

Some may consider having a birthday 5 days from christmas a mis-fortune...and I'm not going to lie, at times I did (when I thought I was getting gipped by family with the 1-4-all gift)... but a perk of my birth DATE is that our christmas travels have always been on or around MY BIRTHDAY! I have always been blessed to celebrate my special day of the year in some pretty interesting ways and places =), this year was no different!

This year we set off on our Christmas vacation Trip the 19th of December at 10:30pm....taking the red-eye from LA to MIA...which meant that I turned 26 in MID AIR! I have flown a lot on my birthday* but I don't think I've every woken up on my birthday on a Flight =).

*I will never forget my 10th Birthday when the whole plane sang me Happy Birthday on the Flight as we headed to Connecticut to see SNOW for the first time---which by the way Nico has me beat for sure! He saw the real thing falling from the sky when he was 3 weeks old in Austin and then got to see it all around at Yosemite National Park when he was about a year and a half.

Hello Miami!!!! Happy Birthday to ME!!!

When arrived in Miami we went STRAIGHT TO BREAKFAST at LA CARRETA with my parents, sister, and Peter's dad! I had DELICIOUS steak and eggs with freshly squeezed orange juice....if you could only image how tasty it was. To top it off I had freshly butter drenched cuban toast (as they only know how to make at Cuban Restaurants) and then headed straight to the hair salon where I received the royal treatment (after some not so nice comments about my appearance) from hair coloring to PANI/PEDI with foot rub and all--thanks to MY SISTER =).

After my mini makeover Manuela dropped me off at the FLORES B&B... I got to hangout with my pumpkin head for a while and explore the Flores' abuelos new remodelings around their home... Mama and Papa went out for a run (humid/hot) and then got ready for dinner, which I thought would be just Peter, my sister, Juan, and I....but turned out to be a SURPRISE DINNER FOR ME at Crazy about you!

Thanks Peter and Manu for setting up this surprise for me =) and thank you all:

Juan, Maru, Nico, Anthony, Yesi, Jeanette, Danielle, Danny, Chris G., Patrick, Vicky, Angela, Andrew, Barbie, Vanessa, Michi, and Arturo for joining in on the CELEBRATION!!! I had a blast!!! And THANKS to all of you who celebrated with me in Spirit...all the calls, FB messages, emails, and notes MADE ME FEEL SO SPECIAL---MUAHHH!