Chris' Epic Birthday Week

October 25th was Chris' 26th birthday.  Because I love birthdays I made it a big deal.  

Many a pictures ahead!

We started the birthday week off with a surprise visit from his best friend, Andy.  They've been friends since middle school, in Hawaii.  After graduating from college in California Andy moved up to PDX 

we only live an hour and a half away so he tries to come and visit often.  Chris was super surprised when Andy went into his work on campus to surprise him.  That evening we went to dinner at Hop Valley Brewery. Our friend Melissa joined us.

Soon Melissa, soon.

We are very guilty of taking pictures like this all the time.

We ordered their sampler of beers,  I took more pictures of these tiny glasses than anything else. The Hefeweizen
(the one with the lemon) was my favorite.  But Hefeweizens tend to be my favorite beers.

I think this picture speaks volumes about us.

I had been to Hop Valley before and really enjoyed it, their happy hour is killer, but I was a little let down for this visit.  Everything we ordered that was fried (onion rings, fish and chips, fries) just sorta all tasted the same from the deep frier.  But they have these smoke mozzarella sticks that are a-may-zing.

The biggest part of Chris' birthday he didn't even know about.  I decided around August that I wanted to throw him a surprise party, with a theme.  I settled on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers because he loved them when he was little and...Why not?  So I asked guests to wear the color of their favorite Ranger, some people wore the same color head to toe or just a shirt.  But it was so much fun!  Chris had no idea, because going over to our friend Mychal's house for 'pizza, video games, and beer' is pretty normal.

Nathan blew up ALL the ballons.

Elisa got conned into hanging up everything because she's tall.  Story of her life.

Ballons everywhere!  A Power Rangers streaming on NetFlix.  What more could an almost 26 year old guy ask for?

Nell, in the orange, is from New Zealand.  They didn't have Power Rangers there so wasn't sure what color to wear.   There is no Orange Ranger.  We let her stay though.

I went as the Red Ranger due to the fact that I couldn't find a ridiculous pink party dress at Ross.

Glow stick dance time!

We played dubstep, pop music mashups, and LMFAO all night.  So loudly a very nice police officer came to the house told us to turn it down.

Chris' vanilla cake with Nutella cream cheese frosting, adorned with  the Power Ranger mecha, from a Happy Meal I bought for Chris back in September.  I baked it the night before at my friend Devin's apartment.  HRD came to the party too.

Most awesome picture form the evening.  Elisa disapproving of whatever Nathan is doing.

I didn't take any pictures of the surprise itself, but I did do a video, or rather Nell did.  It's really funny, to Chris and I at least.  The best part?  After singing him a very surprising happy birthday Mychal said "Gotcha!" Then you can hear Elisa, yell off camera, "Get this man a drink!"  And we did.  All in all it was great party and a huge surprise for Chris.  Much merryment was had and made for all who attend.  The was also sprinkles of roomie drama and the token friend with the token crappy partner everyone hates.  Other than that it was a proper college party with red cups, beer pong, shots, and at least one person who drank too much.  Chris had a great time, and that's what matters.

The morning, or rather the afternoon, after the party we got an epic breakfast at The Glenwood, a Eugene restaurant legend.

October 25th was the real day!  Chris wanted to do something simple so we went to Toshi's Ramen and got dinner, and just enjoyed each other's company.  We rarely get to spend time-time together, although we live together, sometimes we just get busy and sorta forget about us.

Chris, get off your damn phone.

He hates it when I take his picture so he's playing nice here.

Toshi's gyoza are filled with hot, steamy love.  A must order.

Two bowls of ramen, one order of fried rice, and matcha green tea for me.

Totally decimated in about 15 minutes.  We were hungry and eat fast.

He seemed to enjoy every minute of his epic birthday week, but he isn't used to this much attention, so I hope it doesn't go to his head.