26th Birthday (!), Macbeth, and a bee sting

Dave turned 26 at 2:06 P.M. Central Time yesterday. Woohoo! It landed on a Saturday, so we had a full day to party. We slept in a while, then opened presents because one of David's presents was tickets to see the movie Star Trek at a morning show. THANK YOU for the presents for David! He loved them.

We LOVED the movie! Afterwards, we ate lunch at Applebee's, one of Dave's favorite resteraunts, with a gift certificate I gave him for Father's Day. We did the 2 for $20 Applebee's deal, which got us an appetizer, two entres, and since it was Dave's bday, a dessert. What a deal.
Village Green had an Xbox Halo tournament from 2:00 PM--2:00 AM on Saturday. (It was originally only supposed to go until 10:00 PM, which I thought was still crazy long, but you know how those things are.) So when we got back from eating lunch, Dave went to play Halo and I helped a friend, Mos, get some egg rolls ready for a barbeque we had scheduled for dinner that night. The barbeque was delicious; afterwards, Dave had such a good time playing Halo that he went back to the tournament, while I went to a "girl's night" that had been intentionally planned for the wives while the husbands were gaming. We watched "Confessions of a Shopaholic"--I'm usually not that big into chick flicks, but I actually really liked this one!
Finally, at 11:30 PM, Dave officially blew out his birthday candles. What a day!


On Friday night, I dragged David to a Shakespeare play with me. Omaha has something called "Shakespeare on the Green," where every year they put on one or two Shakespearen plays outdoors and give free admission to guests. It was a little similar to Cedar City's Shakespearean Festival. That night, they performed "Macbeth." Macbeth hears a prophecy from three witches that he will one day be king, and with the encouragement of his wife, he murders the current king to make it happen--the rest of the play deals with their disintegrating sanity and efforts to cover up their crime and keep their slipping hold on the crown. We both enjoyed everything--the weather was perfect, and we had great seats.
One other story: on Wednesday, David got home early from school, so we visited the zoo for an hour or two. While we were there, we were admiring the bee exhibit (kind of like an ant farm in a glass case, there is a huge glass case enclosing thousands of bees and honeycomb), and I noticed that there was an escaped bee flying around the room. It just happened to land on Dave's shirt, and while he was frantically trying to get rid of it, it stung his arm! We don't know if it was a killer African bee, or if David also had a mosquito bite near the same spot as the sting, but his arm swelled up HUGE. This is a photo of his arm two days later:
You can't see it really well, but the redness had gone from his elbow to his wrist. And the day before, the main red area was REALLY red and swollen. I could see Dave's pulse on the sting site. He's doing better.