Wednesday

Happy Birthday M! And this time it's on the actual day! As Sy asked at dinner, how do computers cope with 29 February birthdays - but just as well they do otherwise M wouldn't have received her free birthday Boost Juice when she visited there today! She had a voucher to take to Crabtree & Evelyn so it didn't matter about a computer there - and there were Casino Dollars as well to collect - but they weren't specifically for the Birthday Girl.

Come to think of it, they had a very busy day - because it is Wednesday and after breakfast at The Big House (and Birthday errands) there was still Bingo. They did well too - M won, S won, and E won - unfortunately Mouse didn't ... but there's always next week - if she decides to go back. Hopefully she will because she has to be just about due for a win!

So, did M work out where her birthday dinner was? I think she did but she was kind enough not to let on. This was her third visit to The Big House today (breakfast, Dollars, celebration) - and by the time we arrived - we had timed it so the others would be there before us - Mi had decorated the private function room at Zen with balloons and banners and had put up the boards with some photos of M over the years, and some words written about M.

It was a lovely evening and M seemed to enjoy it very much - which is great since it was her birthday celebration. And while she may have figured out the venue - and the guest list - I think the cake came as a bit of a surprise - not that it was an ice cream cake (she loves them) but that we had decorated it (using a Photoshopped picture and edible icing) as the Senior's Card (re-named Cake for this exercise) that she's been talking about for a while! I have a photograph of the expression on her face when she saw it (priceless) and she couldn't blow out the candle at first because she was laughing too much!