my teammate, george, is a balloon artist and made me this hat for my birthday. i had to wear this the entire evening. we went to pizza hut in our town and everyone everywhere stared in wonderment at the crazy foreigners. thankfully, my teammates all wore little party hats so i wasnt the only one like this.
 
i dont really eat cake, so joel made chocolate chip muffins which tasted more like really dense biscuits because his baking powder expired 2 years ago (which cant be useful). we only had three candles so thats what i used.. each one representing a 100  months i've been alive...so now i'm a whole quarter of a century old!