Ann: Wanderlust: Happy Birthday G!

G's 23rd Birthday Surprise!

I love celebrations! Birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, it's like a special mark in a year for me to look forward to in spite of the mundane "normal" days. People who know me well knows how special these occasions are to me, and would hopefully take the extra effort, go the mile to make those days worthwhile. Of course I might be placing too much of an emphasis on these occasions but, I just love how we indulge in a little more luxury, sinful delights on such days!

So, for this year's birthday celebration, I took the opportunity to book a hotel stay for us :) The surprise wasn't really the hotel stay (but the choice of the hotel remained unknown until the day itself), but rather, that I invited his friends over for a mini gathering as well! I know how he doesn't play up his birthday celebrations, and how he prefers intimate gatherings to huge ones where he can't interact with everyone... so yes! Much thanks to his very wonderful & awesome friends who helped co-ordinate the inviting of people!!

I checked in at 4... bringing along a few crazy big bags that I wouldn't imagine myself carrying ever again. I had the whole room to myself!!!!! :D For a few hours at that! Here's some snapshots of the beautifully decorated Space Loft that I picked out.

A pity coffee isn't my thing because of my poor gastric ridden stomach.

Cute stuffed animals around the room!

Luxurious bathtub :)

Okay... so no pictures of the surprise part but... it was quite hilarious! His friend, V, bumped into him while he was making his way to the hotel to meet us! LOLOL. Thank goodness G didn't smell a rat. After we settled everything, I went to pick G up and brought him to the hotel... and yes, surprise! :D His reactions were... "Err..." *expressionless but not in a good way* and we were all worried for a bit that it proved to be too much of a shock for him. Well I guess that's how he is, slow to reaction and limited emotional range HAHA. But after the initial shock, he kept expressing how thankful he is for everyone who took time off to come down :)

Birthday "cake" time!

It was a cupcake tower of salted caramel and nutella cupcakes. The nutella ones were simply amazing but the salted caramel ones didn't rise as I hope it did. Tasted a little like pancakes though, haha. I'm glad everyone liked it... or pretended like it's awesome to make me happy.