The Birthday Girl

So today is Kara's birthday! She was woken up early this morning with an off-key rendition of happy birthday and a breakfast in bed of waffles from her new wafflemaker:



They had a flip-style waffle maker at the Fairfield Inn we stayed at when we were in Nevada (wedding night) and Kara said she liked it a lot - so a little searching around found this one - which makes two waffles at a time in about four minutes. So we get waffles plus an enduring reminder of our trip. Visitors be forewarned - there are waffles in your future!

Kara gets off of work in a little bit and there's some other fun stuff planned for today. The original surprise plan had been for us to take a brief road trip up into Oklahoma and take the Talimena Scenic Drive into Arkansas. Unfortunately, I was dopy and didn't check the calendar on the fridge - Kara has a CoffeeMaster class on Saturday - so we're resetting plans for this weekend (a common occurence for us - nothing really ever goes as planned) and will do the drive some other weekend.