Surprise, surprise!

Husband's birthday yesterday and the children planned a surprise for him. Elder Son and family came to stay - surprise number one when they turned up on Friday evening - and six of us took the Break Out challenge - surprise number two.

We were locked in a room and had to attempt a number of puzzles and challenges in order to escape and we only had sixty minutes in which to do it. And the puzzles were flipping hard! I would probably still be in there if it had been down to me.

Fortunately I had a brainy team and we made it out with eleven minutes to spare. (Although I'm still not sure why Younger Son had to stand in a something or other capsule in the corner while holding two plugged in wires.)

That's our victorious team: Daughter, Daughter-in-law, Elder Son, Husband, me and Younger Son. I don't think we decided on a team name in the end. I had suggested The 69ers as that was Husband's age but everyone laughed at that idea.

Later on all  the family came together for dinner at Prezzo - this was supposed to be surprise number three but Husband had noticed on the credit card account that I'd paid money to Prezzo and wanted to know why (deposit) - and then we came home and flopped: Husband wasn't in the best of health, having a very sore throat and feeling sad that he couldn't enjoy it more.

But the rest of us had a great time.

The cake wasn't a surprise: Husband had requested cheesecake.