The neverending celebration

Kathy and I certainly had a nice surprise this weekend. Some weeks ago, we planned to go to dinner with Lois and Greg and maybe John and Priscilla to celebrate my birthday and our anniversary in one fell swoop. We went to a Bonefish restaurant (owned by Outback, but there are rules at Bonefish, I suppose). Uncharacteristically, we got there a little late, and thus the surprise: Joe and Carol, our friends from the Ireland trip were there, along with Greg and Lois and John and Priscilla. They made us sit on the bench along the wall in the center of the table, and we realized it represented the head table at our wedding! Unbeknownst to us, Shane had conspired with Greg to remove photos from our wedding album and print up posters and even guest name plates from them. Dad’s photo of us standing in front of the church was the one they used for the place settings, and one of us cutting the cake was up on the wall behind us. There were photos of us leaving the church placed in plastic holders, standing up on the table. It was quite the production. We had cards and presents, and a great dinner and lots of fun reminiscing.