I wanted to plan something fun for my Sydney Boy's birthday. For weeks, I tossed a number of ideas through my head, trying to work out what I could do to make his birthday special. I was going to give him a present or do something every day of his birthday week. I kept joking with him telling him I was so stumped for ideas for his birthday that I was just going to get him socks and jocks and leave it at that. For a while, he was looking at going to the musical, Wicked. I didn't know how to pull this one off without him getting suspicious. I finally got him to commit to having the night before we were going to Melbourne for his birthday (he'd booked this a while ago) off from work so I could book a table at a 'prestigious restaurant'. So, I booked the tickets to see Wicked. But, I wanted to make this fun and I realised that it just wasn't possible to do what I'd planned (the present every day) with Wicked being on the Friday night.
So, the treasure hunt came into fruition. I went and I bought a couple of pairs of socks, a pair of jox, a wallet, some cologne and some biros (so he can stop taking all mine to work!).
I then carefully wrapped (complete with ribbon) each gift individually and came up with some hiding places, and clues to go with and placed a clue with each gift. On the Saturday before his birthday, after much bargaining from my Sydney Boy, I got him to go to the shops on the premise of getting some food item so I could hide all of the gifts in their hiding place.
On his return, I gave him an envelope with his first clue which sent him down to the mailbox. In the mailbox, he found a pair of socks wrapped up with another clue. This clue sent him to the microwave where he found a pair of jocks wrapped up with another clue. This clue took him to the pantry where he found another pair of socks wrapped up with another clue which sent him to the bathroom. In the bathroom, he found the wallet and biros wrapped up with a clue that sent him to the couch. Under a pillow on the couch, he found the cologne and shower gel wrapped up with a clue that sent him to his final destination: the pillow on the bed. Inside the box, were tickets to see Wicked on 3 September. It was a fun little exercise.
Wicked was really awesome too. If you haven't had the chance to see it, go to Brisbane and see it - I promise it's well worth the money. We'd go and see it again!
The following day we went to Melbourne with his mate, M. We had lunch at a fabulous cafe that is set in America in the 1960s. There was an Elvis and each table had it's own juke box on it with all the music back in 'the day'. I was in heaven. Their milkshakes are to die for. We checked into our hotel, and had a birthday dinner and drinks at the Casino.
The next day, we packed up and headed to Mt Buller to the snow. It was the first time I'd been to the snow and I'm so glad I got to share it with my Sydney Boy.
I really have had such a wonderful time in the past 6 months with my Sydney Boy, and probably done more too in that time compared to the rest of my life. I'm so excited to see where our lives end up if this is what it's like in the first 6 months. I know that, like all relationships, we'll need to work at it constantly, and that if we do not keep working at it, life won't be this wonderful forever and we'll begin to take each other for granted. I know that life will change as we are together longer, and as our relationship progresses to the next stages of our lives.
My Sydney Boy has something planned for next weekend. I'm not quite sure where we're going or what we're doing, but he's always surprising me and I love it.
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