Eventually, I was able to talk him down to a child-free hot tub party.
Due to the fact that we are middle aged and a lot of our friends have kids, and no babysitters, we did away with the kid-free idea. Due to a completely understandable mistake (that could have happened to anyone!), I caused the sponge that usually floats on top of the hot tub to be sucked into the impeller of the pump and thus, killed the hot tub. Due to a series of scheduling snafus, we had to rebook Bruce's birthday celebration twice, and it ended up conflicting with a Girl Guide sleepover at Ripley's aquarium.
So, the party we had turned out to be completely different from the one we had envisioned. And it was awesome! Bruce gathered together old friends, new friends, people from high tech, people from fandom, people from health care, people from the arts; it was like a Venn diagram where everyone overlapped with everyone else in at least one area, and the conversation flowed in such a natural, relaxed way that everyone had a great time. Copious amounts of Bruce's white wine helped too!
Adding to the enjoyment, we turned off all the lights for Earth Hour, and lit candles all over the house. It was actually quite magical. The darkness also allowed us to better appreciate all 50(!) candles on Bruce's cake!
A great big thanks to all our friends who came out to help Bruce celebrate his big 5-0; you made the evening memorable, and we feel blessed to have you in our lives.
Meanwhile, Sarah and the rest of the Girl Guides were off to Ripley's Aquarium. They got a private, behind the scenes tour of the aquarium. Then, they got to sleep in the shark tunnel!
In the morning, I drove down to pick up the girls, and we had free admission for the day, so I got to see the whole aquarium. My favourite's were the jellyfish and the seahorses. Sarah really liked the Sting rays.
Random pictures from Ripley's Aquarium:
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