We celebrated Pop B's birthday yesterday. Talk about being completely in the dark! (For a half hour or so, anyway, the restaurant had no power.) The place was jammed with people. So we decided to get in on the food in the buffet line while we still could.
Armed with a cell phone lighting up chinese and japanese food, which looks weird even with the lights on, we kind of leaned forward and peered into the steam trays and sort of poked at it with a spoon. What do you think? pork? chicken? tofu? Still in the dark, we brought our plates back to the table and dug in. I am pretty sure I just ate some jellyfish.
Pop wasn't feeling very well even before that. He'd had a recent trip to the hospital, poor guy, but once the lights came back on we sang happy bday which cheered him up, and spending time with the guys is always a treat. It's never quite the same, he says, if anyone is missing, and with life and distance commitments inevitably there is someone with a conflict. I think we've only had 100% attendance (sons + wives + grandkids) a couple of times.
It was a beautiful day in The City: mild, warm, clear, and sunny. Pop headed home and a few of us went down to the beach and met up with some Sunset District people in an atrium and talked over a live band. We walked to the beach and laughed away the day hearing new stories.
Nice weekend. Pop's 82nd. I'll bet he's had plenty of afternoons like the one we just enjoyed, hanging with friends in the sun. I'm glad about that.
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