This morning I drove down to the Cape to spend the day with my Dad. Today is Dad’s 70th birthday. I got there in the morning and we went for breakfast at Betsy’s Diner. It was great to get back to doing something normal again. We ate outside because, well, nothing it too normal yet. The weather was great so that worked out well. We drove around in Dad’s car and tried to sign the kids up for swimming classes but there is no decision yet on whether or not there will be any classes this Summer. Or rather, the person who had that information was not working today, maybe tomorrow.
Dad and I took a walk up the beach and hung out. I stuck around until the family Zoom to celebrate Dad’s birthday. We’ll have a bigger celebration with everyone in person next month but everyone got to sing Happy Birthday to dad and he got to open his cards and gifts on the Zoom. It was a nice day and I am glad I was able to get down to visit. I’m so fortunate for this man to be my Dad.
I often share my birthday with other events. Back when I used to travel and go to movie premieres and stuff like that I had some incredible birthday adventures at age 41 and 43. I’ve also had birthdays where I’ve attended the annual Father Daughter dance at Eva’s school. Last year it was cancelled completely because of the pandemic. This year we could do a virtual father Daughter Dance. We bought kits that included sparkling cider, cups, a candle, a frame and a gift card to the whisk and paddle bakery. I think the actual date was for tomorrow night but I got a very good shave and a beard trim so that I could take my new license photo today.
We started off by getting dressed up. Eva was looking quite sharp in her vest and pants. She did her hair fancy, too. We opened the sparkling cider and had a toast.
Then we put on some music on our phones and danced a round for a while in the back yard. I can only wonder what the neighbors thought of that.
I took the night off from work so that we could celebrate. We had my favorite pizza and cake. We watched a few shows on Disney + and then Allison and I watched a comedy on Netflix called Thunder Force. It was funny. Weird at parts but funny just the same. It was a very nice birthday.
