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My friend is turning 26 on 3/13, apparently it is my job to get together w/her bf and plan some sort of festivities but he isn't exactly full of ideas. We have a bday tradition of going to a bar that serves free wings in the amount of your new age so that's a must but aside from that I'm just not feeling inspired.
Last year I spent the day with her at an aquarium, then went shopping at the mall and finally met up at the bar with friends and went bar hopping for the rest of the night. It was fun but I don't really want to do the same thing, especially since this year she isn't single so I get the feeling that girls only time isn't wanted or necessary.

What were some of your best birthday celebrations? Perhaps fun stories can inspire me. :-)
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Re: Who needs a brain when I have you guys.

  • hetshuphetshup member
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    edited December 2011
    I have a tradition of being lame and having swim practice. You could have her do a get out swim? Where if she goes under a certain time, everyone gets out of practice.


    Or you could do a mani-pedi lunch, that way she's pretty for her wings.
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  • edited December 2011
    The Norwalk Aquarium?!  I love that place, it's been so long.

    I would go to Stew Leonards and eat all the free food and listen to the cows sing.  And then the petting zoo!

    Actually I don't know, is this strictly day time stuff?
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  • desertsundesertsun member
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    edited December 2011
    Call me boring, but I always like a girly lunch and mani/pedi. Then group drinking time at night. Gives me time to go home and nap between. Naps are glorious, and the best possible birthday present. Other than sex. Which you wouldn't, I presume, give your friend.
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  • hetshuphetshup member
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    edited December 2011

    Give her a sex toy! According to Desert its the best gift ever ( that you can give her, with your clothes on)

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  • edited December 2011
    There are places that give you free wings on your birthday?? WHERE DO I GO!???!!!

    I like the mani-pedi idea!
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  • desertsundesertsun member
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    edited December 2011
    Ah, a girly lunch, mani/pedi, and a visit to the sex toy shop....Now that's a birthday!
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  • PaigeMcCPaigeMcC member
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    edited December 2011
    you forgot male strippers, desert. 

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  • PaigeMcCPaigeMcC member
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    edited December 2011
    Okay - so I LOVE planning surprises for people.  It's a hobby of mine.  No joke.  I'm already done for my bff's bday which isn't til late March. Mani pedi's are fun too but for cereal, I like to surprise people! Anyways....II've pulled this one on my BFF twice now...but it was wicked fun both times!!

    Pick her up and don't tell her where you're going but go somewhere that you both have memories at and do something you both really enjoy or something that's special to the two of you.  Then do your wing thing with some friends:)

    For example : I took bff to the stable we used to ride at (like 10 years ago) and took her for an afternoon trail ride on her 20th b-day.  

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  • loopy82loopy82 member
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    edited December 2011

    I got a massage for a friend and I on her birthday.

    I also brought a friend to a winery for her birthday. That is definitely a group/ co-ed thing you could do, if there is one nearby.

    Go on a random nearby road trip. On Sundays my friends and I would pile in the car and start to drive and take random turns/roads and see what kinds of things we stumbled across. It was fun.

    Look up other places that offer free birthday stuff and do a free birthday tour.

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  • desertsundesertsun member
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    edited December 2011
    I've never seen a male stripper.

    But I find the idea of them incredibly unappealing.


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  • PaigeMcCPaigeMcC member
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    I've never seen one but I've seen the posters for them at bars around town...so I know they exist.  lol

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  • loopy82loopy82 member
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    edited December 2011
    I greatly dislike male strippers. My friend really really wanted one for her bach party. So one was reserved/ordered or what have you for her party. He came, he was old, like 40ish. To me that is too old for a stripper. Would have been a lot better if he would have been 22 and dressed as a cowboy. This stripper is now referred to as floppy banana hammock.
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  • Soon2BJeterSoon2BJeter member
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    edited December 2011
    Man... I wish I had friends like you girls!!   LOL
  • hetshuphetshup member
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    edited December 2011
    I'm sorry, but I don't really want to see some random guy's junk. And they are greasy, I feel like I need a bath afterwards.... Not that I would know.
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  • PaigeMcCPaigeMcC member
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    edited December 2011

    lol point taken.  No strippers


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  • loopy82loopy82 member
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    edited December 2011
    This strippers junk wasn't hanging out, he did have a thong on. Still. Gross. I refrained from getting a lap dance, although it bummed out the bride I didn't, but ew. Just ew.
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  • bajedivabajediva member
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    edited December 2011
    I too hate male strippers. saw them, hated them. it was just..too much, omg. my girlfriends, however, can't wait for me to be officially engaged so they can plan a bachelorette, strippers included. i will kill them if they ever do this to me.

    but body-pampering stuff is always a superb addition to bday celebrations. her BF may or may not be in for a mani-pedi, but i dont think anyone would refuse going for a massage.
  • edited December 2011
    TK decided not to email me the replies to this so I was wandering the internet alone lol
    I have been looking into a few spa packages that are local I was thinking of surprising her with that. I've also been researching some bars that have drag shows because I can't think of a way to make her birthday more unforgetable. lol
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  • PaigeMcCPaigeMcC member
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    edited December 2011
    hahaha! Drag shows are a great idea!

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  • edited December 2011

    My family did a girls trip to NYC oa few years back and we went to a drag show/dinner theatre type thing . It was fantastic! If you can find something like that DO IT!

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