My Best Kate and I both have birthdays in August. See...bests. She's at the beginning of the month (6th) and I'm at the end of the month (31st). Since we like to celebrate our birthdays all month long (this tradition was started by the boys), we decided a joint birthday dinner and night out would be the way to go! Some of our friends were out of town, so 4 of us couples went to dinner at Montage. Love this place and their fabulous rooftop!! Gorgeous. When we were almost done, someone from the tourism bureau of Cedar Falls asked us if we could move to one of the center tables so that he could video tape us for the new tourism video! (One of the waitresses told us it was because "we were pretty." Ha! Thanks!) So, we did!
After dinner, we walked to the cars. Then our night was braked to a halt when a drunk driver (it was 9:30 pm) slammed into our friends car. Kate and I were at her car exchanging presents and the rest of the group was standing next to the car that was hit. Thank God they were not standing behind the car! The drunk driver tried to spin out and get away, but he was blocked in and Jeff caught up with him.
Needless to say, we called the cops, he (the offending driver) had to take a field sobriety test, and blow (he blew a 1.97!!), and then was arrested. Awkward. We all stood there and watched the whole thing! Brad and I had never seen someone take a field sobriety test OR be arrested before. It was very informative and I'd be lying if I said we didn't take a little happiness in the fact that the jerk got arrested. God was definitely looking out for us! 1) We were outside at the time of the accident, 2) no one was standing behind the car, so no one was injured, 3) we were able to call the cops and the guy was arrested, and 4) although the car was pretty damaged, none of us were hurt. Thank you Jesus!
Our night was kind of over at that point. We did all go get ice cream, but the "going out" part was put on hold for a later date. We figured that would be best! It was definitely an eventful night!!
Happy Birthday to Kate and ME! Here's to another year of getting older!
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