Birthday surprise

My birthday is not until Friday but I got my surprise today.  

This weekend we discovered a leak from the 2nd floor bathroom dripping through the ceiling onto our computer desk in the den.  Upon investigation, the hot water handle was dripping water when you turned it on.  I figured it was also dripping water from behind the handle which went down the wall until it dripped through the ceiling below.  Of course it was Sunday, with the following day being Memorial day so I couldn't get the part I needed to fix it until today.  And since I had to turn off the water to the house in order to take the shower handle valve out and bring it to the plumbing supply house, that meant I had to take the day off to do this.

  The wife did not seem to be too pleased about this.  She was in and out all day while I worked on the shower, supposedly shopping but she never seemed to bring anything home.

So I fixed the shower successfully and was just chilling on the couch when at about 5pm she asked me if I had wanted to take a walk on the beach which is something we do often in the  spring/summer.  I just wanted to take a nap on the couch so I declined.  She was very persistant about it which is odd because she's NEVER naggy and I gave in grudgingly.  We walked through the dunes to the lighthouse, then down to the ocean and walked back along shoreline.   We had quite a few giggles as this is the nude beach section and damn there were a lot of old man penises on display.  Bunny, you would have loved it......

The water was bringing up a lot of rough sand and rocks and shit, it felt like walking on very,very coarse grain sandpaper.  My feet started to bother me and I just couldn't wait to get back to the car.  We finally get to the main part of the beach where our car was and then my wife wanted to walk a bit further, along the boardwalk.  I declined and she nagged until I went with her.  I was like WTF, she's NEVER like this.   Once we got to the center of the boardwalk, I sat down, but she wanted to go back down to the water and walk a bit further.  No fucking way, that was it, I was not going any further.   I wanted to go back to the car, go home and soak my fucking feet.

She begged and pleaded and finally said "just come and have dinner with me on the beach".   And that's when I realized she set me up. 

We went down about another 100 yards down the beach and I saw my son,daughter, brother, sisters,  and mother just chilling around some coolers.  They all jumped up and shouted "Happy Birthday!!!".   My brother-in-law spent the afternoon smoking baby-back ribs and those, along with some KFC,some sides and some ice cold beer made for a GREAT birthday dinner!

Here are some pics:

They made me wear a crown:

And every king needs a throne!

It was a wonderful birthday surprise!