I can't believe I'm almost 30!!!

YAY- as most of my constant "blog-readers" know, I celebrated my twentieth birthday on Tuesday!
On the day before that I got a delicious birthday dinner from my lovely hostmum- my favourite chinese dish, the spicy garlic chicken with dumplings and egg rolls (ask my mom and sister how yummy it is :P ), and they gave my a tie-died pink sweater as their present- I just love it!!!
As my kids had been very excited, I guessed that there would be a birthday cake too, and see, there it was  :D

I've seen this at our grocery store several times before and me and my hostmum talked about it very often, so they did me a huge favour and got me this one for my birthday- it was delicious!!!! and very chocolate-ish ;)

On the day of my birthday, I was ..well... I cannot describe the feeling...on the one hand I had been veeeery ecxited, because I just LOVE B- days, but on the other hand it was strange because I was not at home and not able to celebrate with my family.. But it got better when I skyped with my mom and Daniel...I just loved it! I also was allowed to open their birthday present then (they sent me packages a week before that, and I had to wait 6 days till I was allowed to open them- you cannot imagine how hard this had been ;) )

Unfortunately some of my aupair- friends "didn't have time" to come over...Cansu told me that she and Miriam would meet to hang out, so they weren't able to come over... To be honest, I was really sad and disappointed,  because they didn't have time to come over on my birthday...but it got better when me and my hostfamily went to Champps, an American restaurant where the kids got balloons and tattoos (they were a "little" excited ;) ) and when we got home, it was bound to be a nice evening...
BUT.....

...all of a sudden, the doorbell rang! My kids, fast as a lightning, ran down the steps to open the door- and who was it??? My friends Cansu, Ida and Laura! They just hadn't been able to come over before because they were baking a cute Birthday cake for me- I was so happy, pleased, amazed, stunned,....! :D
 

This evening then got a funny turn- girls talk, laughter, just hanging out and having fun while eating loads of cake and icecream-  i had a BLAST!!!

Laura, me, Cansu, Ida

 As you see, I didn't expect anyone to come over- I already had my comfy- pants on ;)

That cake was AWESOMEEEEEE!!!

I brought it to Starbucks the other night, to use it up- I had eaten too much the past days ;)

All in all, it had been an awesome birthday, but I am also looking forward to getting some Tiramisu and Bananenschnitte and celebrating with my relatives next year already-- you'll hear from me ;)

Ida