Birthday Week

We had a nice 5-day weekend celebrating Aimee's birthday. We did the best we could under the circumstances. Aimee finished her puzzle and got to work making her own chocolate cake with raspberries on top. I offered to make her a cake but got turned down.

She did get to have a nice Skype visit with her dad. His place is not allowing visitors and so this is how it's done these days. It was a brief but very enjoyable visit.

Later that night after dinner I was part of a 16-person Zoom call and they all sang Happy Birthday to Aimee right before she blew out the candles on her cake. Hopefully later this summer we'll be able to have another celebration when this is all over and we can leave the house for a change.

Aimee is Puzzled

We've got plenty of time on our hands so Aimee dug out a puzzle we've had for a long time. This puzzle is particularly challenging because it is a PhotoMosaic image. The picture is made up of hundreds of tiny pictures.

It's a 1,000 piece puzzle that takes quite a bit of attention to detail and a few days to complete. Aimee was determined to finish it in a few days so it would be done by her birthday (which was Wednesday). Here is the finished product.

Aimee was lucky enough to get a couple of paid days off this week in appreciation of her birthday and all the hard work she has contributed to the project. Awhile back we had made plans to take a long weekend trip up the coast to celebrate but had to shelve that for another time.