Birthday Dinner

The Birthday Event continued for one more day. Sha and the kids came for supper on Friday. I brought Mediterranean Chicken and salad home from the good ole SmokeBox, which Sha augmented with fries that she purchased from another food truck. The chicken was supposed to provide a meal for 4, but we were 5, and Sue and I also had enough for dinner the next night. Mind you, the additional fries helped.

After a cozy dinner around the kitchen table, we repaired to the living room for cake etc.

The cake is always marched in to a rendition of Happy Birthday.

Of course, in these times, we no longer festoon the cake with candles, but they put one on a single piece for me to extinguish with my hot breath. I did.so with gusto, despite the fact that the one-candle challenge is no longer daunting. But one has to play one's part.

With only one gift to open, much fun was put into the presentation and unwrapping. First I uncovered a ginger ale carton. Then, I pulled out several filler bags before finding a box to unwrap only to unveil yet another wrapped box inside the first.

The second wrapped box produced a plain cardboard box. Aha! We're getting to it. But no! There was yet another wrapped box inside. That cracked me up.

Eventually, an iWatch was revealed. It wasn't a total surprise, but neither did I have an expectation. I wouldn't have been surprised if it were something else.

As the last one in the family, including the kids, to get an iWatch, expert help was on hand to set it up, and JJ was glad to provide it. I was certainly glad of his help.

And here it is.

The first watch face that I have chosen is the GMT face. It can tell you both your local time and the time of another selected area. I have set it to Vancouver time where the child #2 resides, but that part wasn't set up at the time of this screen capture.

In the 4 corners, starting at top left and going clockwise, I have it set for sunrise. Next is the weather, followed by a calculator (bottom right) and a moon indicator (left).

We most certainly don't always bestow such pricey gifts, but sometimes there is enough of a need or want that it seems like the thing to do is for everyone to chip in.

By the way, although I am the last in the family to get an iWatch, and was also the last to get a smart phone, I reminded everyone that I had been the very first to get an iPod. That was back in 2005. Who knew back then that phones and tablets and watches were coming along in such rapid succession?

But my reminder of how I had once been at the forefront of technological adaptation was met with hoots of laughter.