Most settled into the hotel for a quiet respite. Laur and I went to pick up the cake at the bakery and stopped by a local deli to purchase some French-origin raclette cheese that Mike and I wanted to take home.
About 4pm, we headed to the old Traverse City state asylum complex. Mom had worked as an accountant at the state asylum building in Kalamazoo. She had come to this one for a conference sometime back and wanted to see it again. It is now converted into a condo complex and shopping arcade. There are restaurants and tasting rooms there, too. We didn't go inside, but she enjoyed the outside view. She didn't remember it being so huge.
Here we all are:
And here's Tom with his usual triple order of tails!! I love lobster as much as Tom, but I limit myself to only two.
After a luscious dinner we went back to the hotel for dessert, gifts, and a "look at the past" Power Point presentation.
The cake was a little purple-ier than we expected, but mom loves iris flowers and we were trying to re-create that look when we ordered over the phone. We also had a choice of three Moomer ice cream flavors (a T.C. based company).
Mom (and me) in Thailand riding an elephant and checking out a Men's Club.
And some were imaginary, spoofy things that she "had done." We got a little laugh at the start. We had mom at a young Shirley Temple birthday party and she commented, "I don't remember any of those girls." We explained that some of the photos (like that one) were Photoshopped with her picture added in. That was a good laugh. Anyway, here's mom getting accounting advise from Warren Buffet.
We all had a great time for this very special birthday event. Mom was queen for a day!
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