My Birthday

I had a really nice birthday on Tuesday, so I thought I would share it…

On Monday night, Nikki and I went up to London, and we stayed on the Sunborn Yaght Hotel - a four-star floating hotel permanently moored in the Docklands. It was lovely - we got the DLR to canary wharf and saw a film (The Pacifier - not really as bad as people think, but Vin Diesel does not suit roles where talking is involved, as he looks well out of his depth, and I still think he’s just a meathead who can fight...), then had a nice remainder-of-the-evening in our hotel room, having some dinner, watching TV and falling asleep on a very comfy bed!

The next morning I woke up to a pile of presents on the table - that makes it sound huge, but it was four or five... I got given a Darth Tater (a Mr Potato Head in a Darth Vader costume, basically), some fruit jellies, and Lemony Snicket's An Unfortunate Series of Events and the Incredibles on DVD... which was good!

Then Nikki went and had a shower and I started playing with the Tater (ever the grown-up). There was a knock on the door, so I ambled over and opened it. Outside was a woman holding a tray covered in breakfast-type food. "Did you order room service?" she asked.
I was a little shocked by this, and muttered something like "No, I don't think so..." and looked confused. So did she, and she looked at the number on our door and then back at me. Then this voice chimed out from the bathroom, "Yes we did!". So the woman came in and put the tray on the table.
When she had gone, I burst into the bathroom and a shocked Nikki looked up from under a towel and asked me what was wrong. "I had my Darth Tater all over the table! It was so embarrassing!" I wasn't embarrassed about answering the door in pajamas or anything, no, just that my toys were spread out across the breakfast table. By the time the woman came back with the hot chocolate for Nikki, Tater was safely stowed away in his box...

So, we then had a nice, leisurely breakfast and left the hotel about 10.30ish, and made our way across to the opposite side of London - to Kensington. We went to the Science Museum and went in the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy exhibition, as you already know. It was cool - thoroughly worth the £7.95 fee...

Then we made our way back across town and went to Covent Garden - and to Forbidden Planet. I bought myself a gun. For the first time ever. It's not your usual kind of gun, though - it's a replica of Marvin's gun from the HG2G movie (not that I remember him having one, but Nik assures me he did). Anyway, it fires foam darts with suckers on the ends and makes a loud laser-gun-type noise when it does it. I am very proud.

Then we went to HMV and I got a few bits in there, and then we went home. Well, almost. We went to Nikki's because she said she had one more present for me. And she did - a Spongebob Squarepants cake! I was very happy when I got home. Nik came round for dinner, and she actually allowed me to watch Top Gear (and I think she enjoyed some of it too, but don’t tell her I said that…!)

Anyway, that was my birthday. I had a really nice day!