Carter's Birthday

Looking back at the year's blogs I've noticed a trend that I seem to stop blogging for the year right around Carter's birthday which is September 17th. I then spend my Christmas break catching up on blogs from September through December. I don't usually do New Year's resolutions but perhaps this year I'll try to get blog posts out closer to when they actually happen. As an example, I couldn't figure out why I seemed to have two sets of dinner pictures for Carter's Birthday and then I remembered it was a birthday weekend. On the Saturday he had a party with his friends at our house with basketball and video games and then we went to D-Spot Dessert Cafe in Delta. It had a very large selection of tasty options.

After his friend festivities on the Saturday, his real birthday was on the Sunday. We started with Fly Over Canada which used to seem expensive but now that Disneyland has gone crazy with prices, the cost per ride is probably more than what we pay for this ride. It's in an old IMax theatre and takes you over top of the screen, suspended in your seat. They mix it up a bit each year so that it's worth going more than once. This year was Fly Over Iceland. Iceland isn't high on my places to travel to but it does look interesting. Lots of lava fields and volcanoes.

We finished the day off with a trip to the Cactus Club at Canada Place. It really is quite a spectacular location for a restaurant and Cactus Club is one of our favourites. I think Carter had been talking about this particular item for his birthday for several months. Food was excellent as usual and he got a piece of cake for free. The only issue was that the coke glass he got had.a crack in it. Not enough to not drink from it but enough that I let them know about it so they didn't send it through the wash again. I think we got comped the drink which was not really what we were trying to do but always welcome. 

One more year and it's time for Carter to learn to drive.