Wendy's Not Through At 32!

September 29, 2007


It's Wendy's 32nd birthday, and her birthday catch-phrase this year is "Wendy's Not Through At 32!". That's for sure.

We started Wendy's birthday with a four hour frisbee practice, hooray! It was sunny and warm on Stanford campus, and we slogged through the badly-disguised sprint drills and scrimmages. After practice, we rolled over to Antonio's Nut House for some post-practice beers and mexican food.

As Stephen is preparing to move to Australia this fall (boo!), he felt that a very nice birthday present for Wendy would be his roasting pan:
We headed to Redwood City around 5 pm to Malibu Grand Prix, to meet up with a group of folks for some good big kiddie fun with turbo race carts, mini-golfing, and games. Yay!

The plan was for everyone to wear fun t-shirts and goof off all night for Wendy's birthday. Sandy wanted to borrow a t-shirt, so I figured that this shirt was the best choice for a vegetarian:



Check out my California Highway Patrol turbo cart:

















We each took 5 laps of the race course and they gave us a little summary of our race times after we were done. I got faster each lap, but was still pretty average (see below). Will kicked our butts with the fastest average time (56 sec?).
From the race course, we headed to mini-golf...(we're missing Heather in this pic for some reason...):








After the 18 holes of fantastically-bad putting but good times, our stomachs were craving some nutritious fast food and light beer.
It's quite sad how excited we all were to play the games and compete with the little kids. Skee-ball, basketball, etc. etc.


We managed to pool all our tickets (~500) from the games to get Wendy a Dora The Explorer bag. Apparently, we suck at those games. We just needed 2500 more tickets to get her a skateboard. Oh well.
When we were done with the Malibu Grand Prix activities, we all headed back to the city for drinkies in the Mission at Bruno's. It took us longer to get there, as I had forgotten that it was LoveParade! in the city on Saturday, so we couldn't compete with all the fancy outfits to hail a cab.





Happy 32nd birthday, Wendy!