Danny's Birthday

We celebrated Danny's 26th birthday last weekend. He reports that it was possibly one of the most exciting birthdays he's ever had. The credit for that goes to the fact that we've been wanting to do these specific activities for quite a while now, and I thought it was good to use his birthday celebration as an excuse to finally go do them. Nothing was a surprise to him that day, but he was excited that we were finally making time to do them.
We first started the wonderful day by sleeping in; something we don't always get to do on Saturday's. When we were ready to get out of bed we got ready for the day and made some oatmeal for breakfast (Danny's really liking oatmeal for breakfast nowadays).

Our first stop for the day was at K1 Racing. It's an indoor electric go-kart race track. Danny had gone there for a company trip once and loved it! Later on his company had an egg drop competition (sounds like a fun company huh?) and his team won, so we were lucky enough to get two free race passes. Going super fast really isn't my thing, but Danny was really excited. He was worried that I was going to end up crashing and crying (unfortunately, he knows me pretty well and this was a possibility). I decided to go at my own comfortable pace and stay out of everyone's way. It made the experience a lot more enjoyable and we had a lot of fun!

Next on our list was a place we'd been wanting to check out for a while. It's called Vital Climbing Gym and is an indoor bouldering gym. Bouldering is rock climbing without harnesses or ropes, but using a soft "crash pad" underneath you. In this case, the gym floor was mostly all crash pad. The gym is really smart and lets you climb for free your first time there. It has a very relaxing atmosphere and is really an awesome concept.We were both amazed at how tall the walls actually were. Going up wasn't that bad, but realizing that you actually had to climb down instead of just letting the ropes bring you down was honestly a little scarier. Rock climbing is such an amazing workout. You have to use muscles you never realized you could work, like in your hands, forearms and fingers. We're really excited to go there again and get into climbing. Danny especially is excited. He used to be an avid climber and had a membership to a gym in Utah when he was in college, so finding out how awesome this place is was a really exciting concept for him.

Our last birthday adventure was to Vigiluccis Restaurant. Danny has talked about wanting to eat here since before we started dating. It's across the street from the beach in Carlsbad where we used to go running during the week (and where we had our first kiss). Eating here was the reward Danny gave himself for passing his certifications for work last September. Then the holidays came and we were just too busy to go when we wanted. We had a beautiful sunset view of the ocean and had fun reminiscing on our adventures together. The food was delicious and was presented beautifully. It's a very fancy place and was a well-deserved reward. After dinner we walked across the street to watch the ocean for a little bit, until it got too cold. This was not the end of our adventure, however. We still had to do our weekly grocery shopping, which is one of our favorite pasttimes.