Celebrations

We have had celebrations as long as we have been around. This weekend Micki and I had an opportunity to go to a very rare one. I’ll tell you about that later. First a little history on celebration, particularly birthday celebrations. In one study I found that man has been celebrating birthday as long as they know what a year was. Other studies said birthdays started in ancient Europe. It really doesn’t matter one way or a the other, but for sure we have been celebrating birthdays for a long time.

Back to last weekend. We went to a birthday party for a friend of ours that just turned ninety years old. Yes ninety is coming more common but it is still a major milestone. Will Bob had a real blow out in his back yard, which is huge. His back yard faces New River which has a fair amount of boat traffic. So as the boats would go by the passages would wave at the quests, which there was over two hundred. The flag flying by the water had on it “BOB’s 90”. You couldn’t miss it because it was orange, the color of his old company. There was freshly cooked roast pig and all the things that went with it.

A birthday party won’t be a party without music and this party had GREAT music, with a live, and very good, Elves impersonator. He and his band keep the party rocking and rolling, as you might say. People that haven’t danced to Elves in years were where out there moving and shaking like they haven’t in years. It was a sight to see.

Then came the trip down memory lane. One of Bob’s grandsons walked the crowd through major events in Bob’s life. You could hear a pin drop has he wove the story of a very remarkable man. Following the wonderful stories about Bob, came recognition of Bob’s many achievements.

One award was from Bob’s college fraternity. I bring this up because Bob and I are fraternity brothers. He went to Penn State and I went to Eastern Michigan. Though we are decades apart in age we have had a very rewarding friendship.
You don’t get to go to many celebration like this often, but every birthday is worth a celebration of some sort. As my Dad said “If you don’t have a birthday life gets a lot shorter”. Make sure you celebrate your birthday and continue to enjoy this wonderful world we live in.

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