It was a beautiful sunny day so we spent most of it in the backyard and played Rummoli for a while followed by a game of Rummikub, and then some Pictionary which was definitely the most fun. (Poor Matt didn't win any games of Pictionary).
Before the games commenced, however, we started with the drinks. A couple weeks ago my wife had found an awesome website called The Drunken Moogle which has a lot of different alcoholic beverages named after video game characters or items etc. So I fell in love with the Squirtle, Wartortle, Blastoise combo and started my journey searching for the ingredients to make the pokemon evolution happen in my liver!
Everyone except the pregnant wife started with 3 tiny shots of Squirtle (probably equaling 1 1/2 actual shots). Matt wasn't feeling too great with his cold, so he started a beer. Sean poored himself a rum and coke, and I concocted my very first Wartortle! Then after a couple hours of Rummoli we had some ice cream cake, which I usually get from Dairy Queen but decided to try from a new place this time called Marble Slab Creamery and trust me, it was worth it! I got to choose three flavours of ice cream, which were layered from bottom to top in this order: French Toast, Double Chocolate, and Blueberry. Then I picked two toppings which were actually smushed into the ice cream as opposed to placed on top, and they were Marshmallows and Sprinkles! I also got the cake designer to hand draw the Autobot symbol which he did a great job of!
Unfortunately, we were too eager to eat it before any pictures were taken :( but this is half of it:
After Pictionary we had pizza for dinner (after the cake :p) and went inside to finish off the night with some multiplayer Halo: Reach and Left 4 Dead 2
During the course of the night I'm told I had 2 full Squirtles, 4 Wartortles, and a Blastoise. Pretty great night, and an even better 25th birthday party!
