Yesterday Karen and Tom both had the day off, so we decided to let the kids have a little bit of that, too, and go out for an early celebration of Tom's upcoming 24th birthday.
But before we did that, we took William to lunch at a very special place. The local school district has a technical center, and one of the programs there is a culinary arts program. William, who has shown a great interest in cooking lately, and especially in baking desserts (to go along with his lifelong interest in eating desserts), has also show an interest in the culinary arts program.
On Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, the students run a small restaurant inside the technical center, and so we took William out of school early and let him experience the place. Based on yesterday's lunch, he is even more excited about the program. Unfortunately for him, it looks like he will have to wait for quite a while to join up, as the program appears to start in the junior year of high school. But he'll have plenty of time to practice at home in the meanwhile.
After that, we picked up Danny and went off to Funspot, the arcade on the other side of the Lake, and the only bowling center in the region with a ten-pin alley (the rest are candlepin, and if you don't know what candlepin bowling is, you can watch this YouTube video, which ironically is set in a tenpin alley and shows a bowler in the back showing very poor form.
We played tenpin, two lines each. Karen and I were the champs (being by far the most experienced); Karen beat me the first time, and I beat her the second time, and we all had fun the whole time.
Tom's early birthday dinner was at Hart's Turkey Farm, just up the road from Funspot. The three adults had turkey, which is to be expected. I had a turkey burger, Tom had a stuffed turkey burger (with cranberry compote), and Karen had a turkey and brie sandwich.
The boys were boring: William had a beef burger and Danny had chicken fingers. Danny at least has the excuse of not liking turkey (although he liked in just fine in the turkey chili I made a few days ago).
The cake had to wait until tonight, since the stores were closed when we got home. Winter hours and all that.
So, as he did when he was young, Thomas gets multiple birthday celebrations. And we all get to enjoy them.
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