Older And Wiser?

Last week Todd celebrated a birthday. We came home from work and Todd opened my gift to him.


It was very heavy!


It is one big@ss book! I bought him the Modernist Cuisine At Home. Because the normal set of Modernist Cuisine cost way more!




Then we headed to Todd’s birthday dinner at Amaya at the Grand Del Mar. It’s one of our favorite restaurants for celebrations. We shared a Roasted Baby Beet and Fig salad appetizer.


I had the Lobster and Crab Pappardelle. It was SO delicious.


Todd had the Crispy Branzini (a kind of fish).


We sat in a big booth.


We had Lemon Meringue ice cream pie for dessert.


The whole meal was pretty spectacular. It was a nice way to celebrate Todd getting older. :)

But is he wiser?  On Saturday morning, he and his sister Amy competed in the Tough Mudder.  I didn’t go, because between traveling and the event, it was over 6 hours. I had to get some things done at home, so that I could hang out with them the rest of the weekend. Todd brought his waterproof point-and-shoot Olympus camera.

Tough Mudder is an 11-mile hilly course, with over 25 obstacles. He and Amy went shopping for the team outfit, LOL.


It involved crawling on mud, under barbed wires.


It involved jumping from high up into muddy waters. The person about to hit the water is Todd.


They persevered and finished, and earned their orange headbands! They are tough! I’m so proud of them!
 

So Todd is a year older. Not sure if he’s wiser for competing in Tough Mudder again. :p Hopefully he will blog the event like he did last year on his blog. :)