Happy Birthday Michael!

Michael turned the big 24 yesterday on the 16th. We did a bunch of fun stuff to celebrate since school is finally over for the summer and we actually have time to play. We stretched our festivities out over a few day and started off going out to dinner at the Brick Oven on Saturday evening. It was delish! Then on Monday night we went to Trafalga in Orem and played miniature golf until almost midnight and rode their little motion machine ride and played air hockey. When we were golfing and we hit the hole on the course with the windmill, we were disappointed to find out it wasn't moving and the little door that tries to block your shot wasn't coming down. Michael, not being satisfied with that idea, went around back of the thing to see if there was anything he could do to change that. After he didn't come back for a few minutes I went back to see what he was doing and found him literally inside the base of the windmill turning some knobs. Despite all he did, it still didn't work so we guess the power was out on it.

Our festivities continued on Tuesday (his actual birthday) with a day at the Holgo Zoo in Salt Lake City. Our favorite things there were the elephant show, the black bears fighting each other

(we think they were playing, but they got pretty into it), the giraffes, and the orangutans. Since it was right by the zoo, we took a brief look at the "This is the Place" Monument on our way out. It is pretty amazing that the Mormon pioneers made it all the way

across those planes and over those mountains.

We were pretty tired of walking around after that so we finished off the evening with dinner at the Myan restaraunt in Sandy. It is such a cool atmosphere! While we ate we were entertained by the cliff divers then we went and explored the rest of the place after we were done eating.

Then tonight we are going over to Trent and Adrienne's house (Michael's sister and her husband) for one last birthday dinner. I'm bringing over the alfajor cookies that I made for Michael's birthday dessert. They are cookies that he loved to buy on his mission in Santiago, Chile. They're made of two soft sugar cookies sandwiched with dulce de leche in between them and covered in chocolate. They're fun to make and way yummy.

It's been a fun birthday week!