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Yesterday was Lucas’s birthday, so I enlisted Cassie’s help to make a Lego birthday cake.  We left work and headed straight to the grocery to buy supplies.  We didn’t want to put in hours making a cake from scratch, so we bought an imported cake mix for a ridiculous price ($9 - Don’t you love Norwegian prices?) and tried to save money buying packets of Norwegian icing mix.  Once we mixed up one packet, we realized we’d need a lot more, so we might as well splurge for some tasty imported frosting too.  Back to the grocery to pick up an $8 can of frosting!  It definitely turned out to be one of the most expensive cakes I’ve made!

We completed our impromptu birthday party with some balloons and party poppers and one of the cool birthday candles we brought with us from Beijing.  I somehow missed the sparkler wick the first time I lit it, and we ended up with a torch-like flaming birthday candle at first (I ended up blowing it out and relighting it to make sure the fireworks bit went off).

Once again, we failed to figure out how to make the candle stop singing “Happy Birthday” through its tinny little speaker.  In Beijing we pretty much destroyed it trying to get it to stop.  This time we decided to experiment, and we put it out on the balcony (still playing music).  Thanks to the fantastic construction of our apartment building, we couldn’t hear it anymore.  Two hours later, I went out to check on it, and it was still singing.  Another hour later, and it was still going!  At this point we did start disassembling it to make it shut up, but this morning while we were getting ready for work, it started singing again!  Persistent little things!

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