Wednesday Jan 26th was Noopur's 30th birthday. The last to arrive in Cancun finally did and it was time for the big birthday celebration... a White Party!
For Noops's 30th, her closest friends and family surprised her with an amazing gift...
A gorgeous diamond necklace with 8 diamonds all in a circle, one diamond from each friend...
I don't know why I didn't take a close up of the necklace. It was very pretty. And sparkly. Designed by Zameer himself.
Whoever said "Diamonds are a girl's best friend" is silly...A diamond DESIGNER is a girl's best friend. (You may recall the beautiful ring he designed for me to give to Teebags when we got engaged.)
After gifting her with jewels, we led Noops downstairs where we unveiled the newly decorated living room, filled with memories from her epic life and surrounded by her favorite people.
Vicki had mojitos ready to go!
I think the birthday girl was verrrry excited....
As someone who prides himself on being kind of thoughtful about giving memorable and meaningful gifts to my friends, I really thought Zameer hit it out of the park with his organization of this 30th birthday celebration for his bestie. It totally raised the bar for what I have to do the next time I do something awesome for someone.
Mojitos for everyone!
We hung out an had a mini photo session before dinner was served...
Then I put my laptop out playing a screensaver of the pictures that I had taken up until that point.
I love what I do. But nothing makes me love it more than when I see the joy on people's faces while looking at my photos. That makes me really happy. Instant validation.
Remember when I sliced my hand open and had to get 20 stitches and rocked a smileyface handbandage for a night that I named "Sarah"? Well I suggested to Subha, who had burned her hand earlier in the day, that she do the same.
Meet Patrissia!
Birthday Dinnertime!
We had delissssious enchiladas.
And then spent a good hour going around telling touching stories about Noops and making everyone cry. It was like a series of wedding speeches basically.
Gosh. Noops has such great great friends. It made me miss all my other favorite peoples!
And then came birthday cake.
Patrissia was having a great time!
Next came birthday shots.
And THEN, as we raised our glasses...right on cue...in walked a surprise!
A mariachi band!
I have to reiterate that our house was out in the middle of NOWHERE. Literally you have to drive a half hour outside of central Cancun AND THEN drive another 20 minutes on this terrifying pothole-filled dirt road to get to the house. So the fact that this rando Mariachi band had made it all the way out was kind of incredible.
But it's Noops's birthday. And Noops makes magic happen.
Dancing commenced.
At this point everyone was getting wastedface, so I put away my fancy camera and pulled out the partycam.
Even Vicki and Alicia got in on the fun!
After the Mariachi band left, we were a bit tuckered out.
So we sat down and played a customized game of Taboo...
Then out came Mojitos, on came a playlist and dancing started all over again.
We danced until the wee hours.
And then the pool happened...
It was all kind of awesome and insane...
And then Zameer found a bag of sliced turkey and proceeded to eat it piece by piece and feeding pieces to everyone...
As if they were baby birds...
And then he melted a bunch of cheese on the turkey and ate that too...
And then Rini started making egg sandwiches...
YUMMMY!!!!
Even MORE to come!
What a ridiculously awesome, heartwarming and totally epic celebration of someone who seems to be such a wonderful person!!! I want to meet Noops!
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