"Yesterday is Molly's Birthday"

Hello everyone! I hope you have a faaabulous September.
This weekend, I turned 17! It was definitely a wonderful celebration. Many of my friends at school wished me a happy birthday on Friday, and even some people I didn't even know wished me a Happy Birthday, so that was pretty special :) And after school, one of my friends took me to Fukui City for Purikura* It was my first time to take purikura pictures but it was so so soso fun!!! Who knew taking and decorating pictures could be so awesome :D I can't wait to try it again.
*Purikura is short for purinto kurabu (print club) in Japanese. Its those smalls sticker pictures that are very bright and colorfully decorated for those who don't know. So fun!!
Since my birthday was a Friday night, my host parents and sister, Mina, were working and at cram school. However Miki and my host grandparents celebrated with me with cake! Miki managed to put 17 candles on the cake and it lit up the whole kitchen. (AH Im so old) It took me maybe 6 times to blow out all the candles, but the cake was super tasty. It was chocolate and banana and super creamy. I luuurve Japanese desserts ;D
It was so much fun...and then Saturday came!
My host mother told me since I had school on Friday, it was diffiuclt to have a party on my birthday. So yesterday I went to papa and mama's restaurant and was greeted by a bunch of my friends from school! I recieved lots of really cute presents >.< and ate lots of tasty Shabu Shabu and more Chocobanana cake <3 It was so much fun, I was so happy!! It was a truely wonderfully awesomely wonderful weekend.

Oh! And did you know thta there is no Japanese version of "Happy Birthday"? They just sing it in English which is super cute :)

Well, apart from that , I did think about everyone in America too. It was very different being away from everyone for my birthday ;__; I hope the marching band have a very good competition this weekend and everyone else have a very good weekend too!

Loooooove
Molly