Visit to the Lake on my birthday

Visited with my family on my birthday. It was so nice to see Kitty, Brenda, Al, Becky and everyone else. Didn't plan for it to be land on the day of my birthday, but that's the way it worked. We went to the lake (aka the Vinings Trailer park). The trailer park was having a potluck to celebrate their 50th anniversary. There were LOTS of people there. Becky won't eat other people's food so she didn't go. Everett was working around their place, and didn't go either. Howard and I went to be with my family and so that Jacob would eat something. He's such a picky, picky eater. We don't particularly like eating food prepared by people we don't know, so we didn't eat there either. We went back to Kitty's place and made ourselves sandwiches.

The best part was going on a ride on Kitty's pontoon boat. I don't like being on little boats because I get antsy and claustrophobic, but a pontoon boat is different because you have room to move around. We went out for about an hour and the weather was just perfect. Later, everyone (except me, Howard, and Becky) went back out to go fishing. That did not appeal to me at all.

Kitty's friend (and massage therapist) also came to visit with her new husband and brother (?). They are very nice (and young). They brought their wedding pictures to show to Kitty. Al showed up later in the afternoon, so I got to spend a little time with him. He showed me how he had fixed up the girls' trailer and how good it looked. Howard and I then headed back to Kitty's. Al said he would be back that way in a few minutes, but I never did see him again. We never got around to going to Al's place, so we didn't see Melissa at all.

Right after they got back from fishing (around 9 o'clock), everyone sang me happy birthday since Brenda got me a cake. It was funny being there on my actual birthday. Everyone knew it was my birthday (because of the cake?) and kept saying happy birthday. This was the first time since I was a kid that I can remember having a cake with my family and having them sing happy birthday. It was embarrassing fun. I sure am lucky to have such a great family.