Surprise Bday(s)

Since I came to the UK 2 years ago, we have never "properly" celebrated Ben's birthday.

Why? I did not on purpose but because

2 years ago, I had to go back to Japan urgently so on his birthday, we were at a business hotel nearby Heathrow airport for my flight in the next morning. 

Last year, while he was in the UK, I was in Japan to attend an anniversary of the death of my grandma and also to start planning for our wedding this summer. 

So finally the third year truth! 

I put much efforts for this first very special occasion! 

Plan 1: a few days before his birthday 

We were invited at friends' place for dinner. So I asked them to help me to surprise Ben for this birthday. They offered a so funny and nice cake with my (our) champagne♪

Ben was indeed surprised and very happy. Big success!

Plan 2 : On the day

It was a bad timing because my appointment for a wisdom tooth removal was planned on the same day... It was out of question for me though to reschedule the appointment because I had waited for this to happen for about a year! No way to wait any longer.

Being put under anesthesia (for the whole body!), I had no idea what my condition would be after the treatment, would I be normal by the end of the day? would my mouth be too painful to eat anything???

I did not want to take any risk to plan something for only us and ruin it because of my condition. So I decided to invite a few of his friends to join us for his bday dinner in a restaurant, of course without telling him! So that even if I could not eat at all, he could enjoy his bday dinner with his mates: Contingency plan ;)

In the end, despite constant dull pain in my mouth, I was able to eat even too much! 

As he likes Malaysian cuisine, we went to a Malaysian/Indonesian restaurant

Of course, Ben seemed happy to celebrate his special day with many people he likes.

Wish you another nice year, well let's make it great and special together☆