Happy Birthday to me!

Well, it was my birthday on Friday! The big 2-5. Ew. That makes me feel so old. Mom and dad took me to MEDIEVAL TIMES, all the way down in Buena Park. The place is so awesome because it actually looks like a castle on the outside. However, as a cruel joke on me (not so cruel in hindsight!) Mom didn't tell me we were going there! Instead, she told me we were going to World on Wheels for roller disco night, and thus I dressed accordingly. With my tube socks and favorite cut-off tee and blue shorts, they took me in the car (blindfolded) all the way to Buena Park. I remember thinking "Gee, I didn't think it took this long to get to West Hollywood."

Anyways, in the parking lot they took off the blindfold and they also had changed clothes. It was kind of mortifying to see them dressed in robin hood clothes, but it was kind of more mortifying to be dressed for a roller derby as I was, in front of a castle.

But, as I have learned in all my years of racewalking training: roll with the punches. You know? NOTHING WILL GET RAMSEY CARLSON DOWN. And anyways, they're my parents, so of course they meant well. It was really nice of them to take me out on my birthday. Unfortunately Chuck and Tim were unable to come out too, which was a total bummer. (Almost as devastating as the time when Jenny dumped me on my birthday two years ago.)

The jousting totally owned, until the dude in yellow fell off his horse and got carried out on a stretcher. They were also out of turkey drumsticks (thus destroying my ultimate dream of re-enacting a certain obscure Robin Hood parody from Star Trek the Next Generation).

The cute waitress dropped my jug of mead all over my shorts, so we had to end the night early.

On the plus side, I got a new pair of New Balance's as a present! I have been breaking them in all over the Santa Monica pier the past few days.