February is a month full of friend's birthdays, including my very own husband's 30th coming up next week! But this weekend we celebrated our friend Kimberly's 30th birthday. It's a tradition of the Dutch that when you celebrate your birthday, you are the one to provide the entertainment/food/party. If you invite people to dinner, you pay...for all of them. If you have a party, you provide all your own food and cake! And apparently there is this tradition of the Dutch birthday circle, where at a birthday party, you all sit around in a circle and when a new person comes in they have to shake everyone's hand, introduce themself and say "Gefeliciteerd!", which means congratulations in Dutch.This makes no sense to me. Why are you congratulating people who are at the party? But, it's tradition.
Kimberly also made her own birthday cake and a beautiful one at that! After the gathering at her house, a smaller group of us took off for Rotterdam at 11. . .yes, P.M. We were heading to a "disco-tek" to dance the night (and morning) away. We finally made it to the club close to midnight and began getting our boogie on. Let me just say a few things about it.
1. The average age was about 20.
2. My ears are still ringing.
3. I was tired before we even got there.
4. It was even more apparent that I am getting old.
But, we had great company and had a good time, lasting until 2am before we had to call it a night. It's been awhile since I have gone to bed at 3am.
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