Birthday celebration

Today was my birthday. We got permission to take the boys out for the day. It seem today was a series of misadventures. First we were supposed to take the boys out at 10:00 am, Kevin called and asked us to come at 11:00 instead, he did not however consult the other 2 boys who wanted us there at 10:00 ( Saturday they have school and did not want to spend a minute more then they had to there) We ended up arriving at 10:30. Alex gave me a cross for my birthday which he claims to have made but looks a bit more like it was liberated from some other place at one time and when Kevin arrived closer to 11:00 ( apparently he didn't care so much that he had class, he had gone to the store) he presented me with a box of chocolate and a perfume gift set. We set out to get breakfast but noticed that Danny had left his back pack on the bus. Richard, Jessica and Danny waited for the bus to go its round while I took the boys for food. After Joseph ate he joined them just as the bus had come full circle and helped Danny retrieve his bag.Following our full morning we hopped a bus to the large Bazaar. Visualize a larger van, maybe a 14 seater modified into an 18 set bus with 36 people actually on it. We squeezed on to the Bazaar. At the Bazaar we lasted about on hour before the cold got to us, the last few days had been really warm so we did not expect the sudden chill we had today. We went back to the apartment and grabbed warmer clothes. We had bought the boys jackets for America but decided they needed them today. We then headed to the park with the amusement rides for a few hours. After the park we took the boys to Reflections for dinner, a nicer restaurant, especially compared to Marios Pizza and the boys were not quite accustomed to such dinning, without going into much detail lets say they will need a few more lessons in manners before we attempt such dining in the near future.After dinner I took the boys home while Richard, Randi and Danny took the bus home. When the boys were checked into the Internate, I headed home stopping at the store for some groceries. Later that night our friends whose apartment we are staying in came by and brought me flowers and a cake for my birthday and visited for a while. All in all it was a good day.