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Brian's Birthday

I waited and waited for Brian to post on his own blog about his birthday.  Alas,  it looks like I am going to have to do it for him.  I was pretty proud of what I did for his birthday.  I set up a treasure hunt around the apartment.

At midnight, he opened his birthday card and inside was an origami figure.  This was the first one he got:


When he unfolded the origami, he found a riddle written on the paper.  This first one had the following riddle:

"I am only always empty on the seventh day."

Once he solved it, he went to the location to find his next gift and another origami figure.  I was worried that my riddles were too easy for Brian but I was lucky that a few stumped him.  Here he is trying to figure one out:


He was pretty happy when he solved the riddles though.  Here is a very happy Brian with a new Ikea gift card from my parents that he found after solving the first riddle:


He certainly loves Ikea.  Here he is opening my favorite wrapped package:


I know the box was made for kids but I don't care; I thought it was hilarious.  In case you are curious, the box had candles and bubble bath in it.

Two of the other riddles he had to solve were:
"You can take me anytime but you cannot take me anywhere."
"I run all day but never get tired." 
I am not giving you the answers because I think that spoils the fun of riddles.  Also, there were a few other riddles but you would have to be Brian to figure them out!

Overall, I think he had fun.  Writing a bunch of riddles was a lot harder than I thought it would be and I felt really lucky that he didn't guess them all right away!

On his birthday we also went shopping.  I swear, he wanted to go shopping for his birthday.  For dinner, we went to The Smoke Joint in Fort Greene for some awesome barbecue.  Finally, we finished off the evening closing two different bars: The Thirsty Scholar and Barcade.  It felt like it was my birthday too!  A good day indeed.

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