Hudson's Birthday Extravaganza!

All the birthday excitement started (as it often does around our house) on Birthday Eve. The family loaded up and went to a Science Museum that has a building full of snow! Pretty incredible to be in a room that was a chilly -4c (25 degrees, I had to look it up) when you live at the equator.

Since NO PHOTOS are allowed inside we only have this one grainy video which may or may not be from someone's phone and may or may not include all the non-broken-rib members of our family wiping out big time at the end.

Did you see at the very end the lady come running in and snapping a photo? That is why NO PHOTOS are allowed. They want to sweep in, take a pic, then give you a tiny slip of paper to hold in your gloves or shove into the rental coat you have that features a big pocket hole and a ton of wadded up, previously washed slips of paper. FLASH BULB! Brilliant!

Everything was good til this group of Kindergarteners showed up. A bit of context: Asian kids have no patience, no understanding of "lines" or waiting their turn. Instead they speak enough English to say sweet things like, "Move" as they push through. Its darling. Perhaps you can imagine what they do with all the little slips they received from the photographer.

Maybe the bigger issue was the whole place has to grind to a halt for each individual tube to go down the hill. Mix in a load of sweet little children and you get a BIG back log.

So we were off to the museum and the 3D theatre for the shark show.

And the FIRE TORNADO!
We capped Birthday Eve at TGIF (where sodas now cost $3.20 ouch!).

On the actual day Hudson got to pick breakfast (pancakes)
Soon after the gifts started rolling in, from Bethany: a Lego guy.

From Caleb: a gag-gift toilet that squirts water. Notice how excited he was!
Some friends got him awesome stuff

You can't beat good buddies!
What was the bet gift? The Lego Star Wars watch??
Chipper Jones jersey??
The Lego Harry Potter game??
Surely its just being with friends and family!

Well, actually ... maybe it was the cheesecake.

That was how our special Davis celebrated being 8!