T&T Birthday Extravaganza Weekend!!!

I can name three couples that have their birthdays within 1 week of each other. It's creepy and kind of makes me think I'm going to marry a Leo, which scares me. Taylor and Tristan's birthday's happened to be the week that we were hanging out with them in Spain! Coincidence? I think not. What a better way to spend your birthday than to hang out with the bestest of friends in a beautiful beachside town! It really doesn't get any better than that!

Taywood's birthday (Taylor) was on Thursday the 17th. Darah and I still have to work the next day, so we didn't do anything too crazy! It has been super hot here, like 100 degrees and it is the hottest from 5-8pm so basically when we were heading into the city to go hang out with them. We decided it was best to just get a few bottles of tinto de verano and spend the pre-evening drinking in their air conditioned hostel bedroom. It felt a little bit like college, but we were ok with it. That's when the photo shoot of taylor and I started haha. Here are some of the best ones. (Thanks Tristman for being our photographer :)

tinto de verano and a desperado (tequila and beer combo)

had to throw in a panorama in there. 

he made us hold our drinking pose for so long that this is what ended up happening. 

After an hour or tune of pretending we were back in college we headed out on the town in search of a mexican restaurant. When we finally made it there just before 9pm they told us that they needed 10 minutes to set up. Really? It's 9pm, why aren't you open already?!! The only thing to do was head around the corner to a bar and have a drink of Clara con Limón. (basically beer and fanta limón).

the nice bartender took a pic for us!

After we finished our beers at the bar, the restaurant was finally ready for us (and only us) to come in. We were the only ones there which was sort of nice so that we could chat. Overall Thursday night was a casual birthday night. Darah and I headed back out to Rivas around 12:30 and woke up the next day exhausted and happy to have one relaxing day at the pool with the kiddos before heading out to Salou for our weekend!

After Friday day with the kiddos we started our weekend adventure!
Our trip started on Friday night on an overnight bus. While I absolutely do NOT love the idea of an overnight bus and getting a miserable nights sleep, it's actually pretty convenient for not having to pay for a hotel for that night. I will do anything to save a few dollars :)
This bus left at 11pm and go into Terragona at 6am.
Tristan took celebratory shots every half an hour around his birthday beginning. Only appropriate for the birthday boy! Then we had a few hours of conversation (probably too loud for everyone else on the bus) and got to "sleep" (I put this in quotations only because it's the best nights sleep you can have on a bus that stops every few hours to get more people) around 2am?
While at one of these bus stops we noticed that the bus goes right to Salou but we only had tickets to Terragona. They're legit a 15 minute difference so we thought hey, let's just stay on. Well bad idea, bus driver yelled at us and we felt like we were 5 again. So thankfully there were taxis when we finally got to Terragona.
We stayed at the Blau Mar Hotel in Salou and got there around 6am. The one guy working the desk hooked us up with a hotel room that we were able to go to right then for no extra cost... this guy was our HERO!! We fell asleep for a few hours and then got up and ready to start the day!! On our way to the beach we saw this AWESOME blow up fun. (The pictures explain it all). It was 10 euros each and we all wanted to do it...so we splurged and paid the 10 euros each for an hour out on this thing. It felt like we were kids again :)

all 4 of us on the banana boat

Taylor ripping me off the banana boat thing

blurry Darah and I on the trampoline taking a rest...it was exhausting!

selfie before we rushed out to the water playground

and a nice selfie of Tristan and I. I learned that someone else takes just as many selfies as I do!!! I'm not the only one!

The rest of the night is pretty much documented via photos so here they are... it involved drinking, dancing, churros, and skinny dipping (ok the skinny dipping was not documented).

selfie of darah and I for her momma!

besties

and more seflies

group shot

awesome fountain maze thing

girls!

and a crazy cool shot

Taylor and Tristan at a bar that we went to pre club!

Ok so maybe the whole night wasn't documented via photos, but pretty much all you need to know is that we had a blast, we got permission to swim in the ocean, and I did not find my future husband.

What a fabulous way to spend their birthdays! I wish they were still going to be in Europe for August 10th! Darah and I must plan something fabulous. 

It was sad to say goodbye to these guys, but I know I will be seeing them again soon!