Birthday +1

Friday was a fantastic day. The children were off school so we decided to go to Notts for the day and meet up with Brian as well as do a bit of shopping at the same time.
I bought the Pink accessories pack for me PSP which I wanted and while I was in Gamestation I picked up a couple of DVDs which were buy one get one free and only cost me £3 altogether.

We didn't manage to get DD a coat though which was more important so we are going to have to look around Derby again. Why is it so hard to find clothes on a budget these days.

Finally we got to the Victoria centre which is where Brian lives. Unfortunately though DD wasn't aware that we would have to go 19 floors up in the lift. I had forgotten about her fear of lifts but there isn't really any alternative. We had a bit of a panic. I don't know why you can't just get in the lift and go up to the floor that you want. I tried to press the button to take us up and it looked like all DD's fears would come true as we seemed to be stuck. We made it in the end though and after the first time she wasn't so bad when we had to use the life 3 more times.



We had decided that for lunch we would go to The Big Wok which has recently opened in Nottingham. It is a huge Oriental all you can eat buffet diner which has absolutely oodles of choice of all number of Chinese dishes. I think it is a great way to introduce authentic oriental food to DD & DS who have never tasted it before. DS was ready to get stuck in but DD was a bit cautious.
I can't remember much of what I had. Although the idea was to take a note of everything, I was too excited. I did start with some sesame toasts and veggie samosas. There was BBQ spare ribs, sweet potato tempura and a bit of wan ton which was very nice.
I had a bit of Chicken curry and some gorgeous Chicken and Pineapple. There was a point where I had to move on to the desserts.
There is an ice cream machine and a huge chocolate fountain.

I went to get myself a bowl of ice cream which would seem easy enough but not for me. I pulled the handle down but when I thought I had pushed it back up again, Ice cream was still pouring out into my bowl. When I finally managed to push the handle back up I had a huge mountain of the stuff in my bowl. I poured some gorgeous chocolate over it and added a few marshmallows before going back to my table.

As you can imagine it took absolutely ages to eat but I got through it in the end. I was feeling incredible sick and didn't need to eat for the rest of the day but it was well worth it.

After we had all filled up we made our way back to Brian's where I helped him set up his Freeview boxes and we supped wine.

I could have stayed there all evening if truth be told and had Brian not been going out I would have. I decided that we would try and get back home for the start of Comic relief and we did. It was about 6,45 when we got home. More surprsies awaited us as I found a little tub of cakes on the doorstep as well as some chocolate from my very good friend Dot.

It was an excellent Birthday +1 celebration day. Thank You to Brian and DD and DS for making it such a special day.