Born in late August, my son rarely gets much of a celebration on his actual birthday. Often, we’re far from home on the big day, and one year that I’ll be hearing about forever, we were backpacking thirteen miles in pouring rain. We have set the bar way low for his birthday.
Today, on his eleventh birthday, all Alex wanted was to be at home, doing nothing in particular. Instead, he had to suffer through a day in paradise.
After a late morning spent reading one of the Harry Potter books in bed, we headed out to Bad Ass, a coffee shop with free WiFi. For almost two hours, he played an online game, Roblox, without interruption.
This was followed by a little bit of shopping, not one of his favorite activities, but it netted him a cool Shark waterproof watch that he wanted. Actually, I wanted him to have the watch because the next activity on his daylong wish list was to be allowed to go out on his own to ramble around the Frenchman’s Reef Resort where he planned to sneak into the pools. I wasn’t worried about him sneaking into the pool area. I’d already tested that out the previous day, but I was concerned that he might lose track of time and we’d be late for dinner.
Alex got a real kick out of keeping track of time on his cool surfer dude watch, and was back in exactly one hour as we had agreed. Considering the layout of the resort, and the fact that he took a dip in each of the four pools, that is nothing short of amazing.
Our next stop was Hull Bay Hideout, home of the islands best hamburgers, but we had to change our plans when we discovered that the restaurant recently started closing on Mondays and Tuesdays. Instead, we moved on to Sib’s, another nearby restaurant that also makes decent burgers.
This restaurant features a festive outdoor patio where we were soon comfortably ensconced, awaiting our dinner, when we were hit with what appears to be a recurring theme on Alex’s birthdays, pouring rain.
The rain didn’t dampen our celebration, but we moved our party indoors to a hastily constructed private area near the bar. Alex loved getting gifts of cash and cake, and we enjoyed a fun meal with family and friends. All in all, it was a fun birthday, and certainly it was way better than hiking thirteen miles in freezing rain!
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