Today is Travalon's 60th birthday, and he wanted to call this blog post what I have titled it, so why not? You're only 60 once. I worked from home today so that he could have a relaxing morning, and then I took a long lunch so we could go to the Journey, his favorite Chinese buffet. Then in the evening we went to Lola's for dinner. It was decorated so beautifully.
And here are our drinks.
(We had already started drinking them but I loved the colors.) I'm having a nonalcoholic infused black currant spritzer, and he's having a non-ice cream grasshopper. Here's what they looked like when they were full.
Travalon got to spin the wheel at Lola's for free for his birthday, but he didn't win anything. As we were walking through the parking lot, I heard the train, and the tracks run right near there, so we walked over to them but saw nothing. When we got in the car and drove over the tracks, we could see a train coming, so we found a really good vantage point to watch it. The train came closer and closer, and the crossing arms sounded and came down... but then the train backed up out of sight. We gave up and went to look at Christmas lights.
And here is a photo I meant to post several days ago. I stole it from the social media page of my old boss when I worked in the private sector. He was/is in Thailand, and this is a hill called Din Dang Doi:
The name is almost even better than the cool photo of the hill at sunrise. Unless Din Dang Doi is the name of the hill my old boss climbed to get to this view, and not the fascinating hill in the photo. Could one even climb that hill? It looks very, very steep.
Famous Hat
