Birthday

My 33rd birthday was yesterday.

I was trying to decide what I wanted to do on my birthday for almost a week. I ran 32 miles on my birthday last year. I knew that was something that I wouldn't do this year. I wanted to spend time with my husband instead of running most of my birthday away.

I was looking up things to do in Toledo, Ohio in Google earlier this week. I found a list from tripadvisor.com. The first item on the list was the Toledo Art Museum. I looked at the exhibition schedule for the Toledo Museum of Art. They will have an exhibition called Made in Hollywood in October. It will feature photographs from American film industry. The photos include movie stars, sets and scenes from 1920-1960. Even though the museum has an exhibition I would like to see now, I will wait until October to visit.

Down on the list of things to do in Toledo was Woodlawn Cemetery. Visitors to the cemetery made comments about mausoleums and monuments that are in the cemetery. Some also said how beautiful that the cemetery is. Since I never seen this cemetery, I decided that is what I wanted to go on my birthday.

My husband and I arrived at Woodlawn Cemetery in the afternoon. It is a very large cemetery. I could have easily spend half of the day there. But I didn't. I didn't want to bore my husband too much. I photographed mausoleums, monuments, statues and headstones. I was saying how beautiful everything was during our visit there. I know I will try to visit this cemetery again.

We headed out to the bookstore after the cemetery. I do own a Kindle, but I was looking for art books. I would rather have the physical book, especially an art book, then buy it on my Kindle. I was looking for a graffiti book, Wall and Piece by Banksy. I have admired his work for a while, but have never known who was behind it until this week. I finally found the book after scouring the art section for 10 minutes. I couldn't find it right away because nothing was in order.

After the bookstore, we went to the mall. I was in the buying mood. If anything caught my eye, I would buy it. Nothing did unfortunately. I looked at a bunch of cute shirts, but they weren't what I really wanted. I decided to keep my money for another day.

The last stop was to dinner at Famous Dave's BBQ. I had my usual chopped pork sandwich with broccoli, corn and a cornbread muffin. No dessert because dinner filled me up. I didn't go the entire day without dessert. I had a piece of red velvet cake after lunch.

Another birthday has passed by. I was very happy to spend my day with my wonderful husband.