They Say It's My Birthday!

My 21st birthday was Saturday, and it was SUPER fun!  Unfortunately, my friend did not make it down to visit as I told you a couple posts back, but my DISL friends made it extra wonderful for me!

Friday night: We went to Ole Maria's (as we do every Friday on the island), but it was extra fun this time! We karaoked for hours. And nothing is more entertaining than people with a microphone and without shame. The restaurant closes at 10, but we didn't finish our last song until 10:30 when all of us DISL kids sang "Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy" in unison with stomping and clapping and all... because why not?! We went back to the Sea Lab and just hung out, but at exactly midnight, everyone with me sang Happy Birthday, which was super sweet!

Saturday: I woke up to my roomie wishing me a happy birthday and then Skyping my favorite people. All day I got to read and relax, which was absolutely wonderful (And I finally finished my first book of the summer! Woo!). Then I went out with a group for dinner to the Islander where I was apparently "lame" for ordering a water (Thank you, Clint). But I thought it was a very refreshing and delicious hydration- sorry I'm not sorry. We then went to Mobile to find a place to dance and failed miserably. The first place we went to was most definitely not a dancing location, so we decided to ask the experts: Waffle House. Can't believe I'm saying this, but Waffle House did us wrong... They directed us to a dance place that was apparently a "Latin American Dance Club," and seeing as none of us knew how to salsa, that didn't work out too well either. But we had a quality hour of fun attempting to Latin dance and moved on.  We went back to the island to dance at the Deep End (the only bar on the island) because Bren and Clint promised there would be fun dancing. Hate to say it, but they were right! As Macklemore would say, "We danced...And we laughed. And had a really really really good time!"  They played all of our favorite music, and all of DISL was there dancing with us, which made it even better!

This year, my birthday is definitely one that I'll remember!  Everyone was so excited for my birthday that it made me even more excited!  It wasn't just another day; my friends made it a celebration!  Shout out especially to Angela and Anna for making sure my birthday was perfect, to Bren and Clint for going along with us all night despite the ridiculous places we brought you to, and to all of you DISL people for knowing how to have fun! Everyone's well wishes and happy birthdays were very kind, so thank you all!  I'm not sure next year will be able to live up to this, but then again, not much can live up to a DISL party!