Madison's Birthday

We can't believe that she is four years old! Since her actual birthday is on Monday, (Monday's are busy!!) we decided to have a birthday weekend for her. Sooo...we asked her what she wanted to do, and she decided that she wanted to have breakfast at McDonald's, go swimming, and eat dinner at TGIFriday's. Or as she calls it....TG Friday.

We tried to convince her that we should put her swimsuit on her at the water park...but to no avail. So she wore her swimming outfit to breakfast. The funny thing is that we usually get stared at a lot when we go out, but for some reason we didn't get many stares with her dressed like this, and the place was packed! Huh, go figure. Notice the stylish swimming cap? Everyone is required to wear swimming caps here. Yes....it makes for very attractive pictures. We took Madi to this place called the Blue Lagoon. It was actually pretty fun, they had a whole huge place for kids that had mini water-slides and toys to spray your parents with. They also had some pretty fun slides for big people, too. Oh, and Erika and I got asked to be on television with a "famous singer." They have these silly shows on tv here where they do all kinds of dumb races and stunts....and we saw them setting up something like it at the Blue Lagoon while we were swimming...lots of cameras and people whose hair is much too styled to be swimming. (...and where, might I ask, were their very attractive swimming caps???) Anyway, we were all just vacating the area where the crowds were starting to gather when Erika and I were stopped by a couple of women who asked us if we would like to join their "games." We must have had the, "you're joking...right?" look on our faces, because they then told us that we could win some money. Now don't get me wrong, I like humiliating myself on television with famous singers who have obviously been to the stylist that morning...and have a personal trainer...and I especially love to humiliate myself as such while wearing a swimsuit, hip swim cap....and the sunburn that I got from wearing said outfit. But...I had to decline the opportunity. The two ladies who asked us were shocked that we would say no...and didn't seem to want to take no for an answer....so I simply told them that it would have to be an awfully lot of money for me to appear on television dressed the way I was. Us foreigners can be such snobs.And we finished up with dinner at Madi's new favorite restaurant. They brought her out a HUGE piece of cheesecake for her birthday....with an Oreo on top. We've been there enough that they know she loves Oreos...so it was cute that they remembered. Well, another year. She is getting so big!