it was my birthday yesterday! yay! i'm an old lady now!

and for the first time since i cannot even remember, i celebrated it, on the day, with a cool bunch of lads and ladettes from the lab, with a day trip to brighton. the weather was beautiful - and i tend to hold back on my compliments, but it was. picture perfect. There wasn't a cloud in the sky the whole time we were there, the sea was shimmery, a shade darker blue than the sky, the waves with the white cresty bits, the seagulls, the sun, the wind. we sat and ate lunch on the pebble beach, paddled a tiny bit in the water, then went to brighton pier, tried out a couple of rides, then spent the rest of the day sunning ourselves on the pier. Then we ate in this italian restauraunt which is built right on the beach, with glass walls all the way around it, so that when you sit down inside it you get an amazing view of the sea and the sky. and then we went home at 9.30pm, with the train pulling into kings X at 11pm. it was lovely, and its nice to be able to say something like that, which i don't often get to do. So there, the old lady does know how to have a good time after all.