Spent Missy’s third of a century birthday party in Tlaquepaque, a community on the edge of Guadalajara, with Angie. Angie wanted to get some wedding gifts for friends back in Virginia, and we had a nice lunch outside where a mariachi band sang Las Mañanitas, a Mexican birthday song, to Missy.
At night our neighbors Monica and Jorge, ex-Roanoker, Danielle and her friends, Annie and family, Missy’s Spanish tutor Octavio, and Laurie stopped by for pizza, which Panzon and I cooked from scratch, and cake, thanks to Annie.
So the cake came because Annie won several races at a masters swim meet, and her prize was a gift certificate to a cake shop in town. She gave the gift certificate to me on my birthday to use to buy Missy a cake on her birthday…whew. But it was delicious!
Sadly, Angie left on Saturday morning, a couple days after Pete returned, so we’re back to normal life, which is quite fine too.
Mmmm… This is a famous pizza, I just saw it on http://mwarp.blogspot.com/