This was a big weekend! It was both Saffron's birthday on Thursday, and Halloween yesterday. I took it off as a long weekend, since I haven't taken very much time off this year (go figure).
Saffron turned 13, so she's now a teenager and everything. Wow.
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For her cake, she had a Victoria sandwich cake -- this is a British cake, very similar to a pound cake, with strawberry jam and whipped cream filling. It was excellent -- very buttery, and a nice change from more conventional American cakes.
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(Don't count the number of candles... we might have run out >___> )
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| Lots of presents! |
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It was only after she started trying to open presents that I remembered how difficult this unicorn wrapping paper is to tear... oops
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Some manga -- Flying Witch books 7 and 8
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And a comic book -- this is a Squirrel Girl comic
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This present took two people to open it... it was the birthday of hard to open presents xP
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More BOOKS! Chronicles of Chrestomanci
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Harry Potter Lego set -- this was the one she really wanted, the Room of Requirement. This set's pretty cool, I like some of the mechanics related to how they hide the door.
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Oz picked this Harry Potter set out for Saffron --Rise of Voldemort
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And Corey picked out the board game Clue -- we actually played this as well, and that was pretty fun
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I'm only posting one picture of Halloween -- it's taken me forever to upload / post just these pictures, so I'll be posting more next week. Here's Osric as Link from Legend of Zelda, Saffron as a Japanese Kappa, and Corwin as Luigi from Super Mario Brothers
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