Her birthday is April 12.
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She has been hopping up and down thrilled all weekend.
I do not know how it was arranged, but the friend who had to cancel coming up from Los Angeles for the weekend managed it anyway. When I got home from work on Friday and stopped by my daughter's place, she was pretty much literally hopping up and down, she was that happy.
So breakfast on Saturday (at Sanborns, which is an easy walk away) was for six rather than four.
The friend from L.A. wanted to wander around town and look at some of the places she's seen on Portlandia. I suggested to my daughter that she take her friend downtown and show her the gawdawful statue (Portlandia), which is the second largest copper statue in the US, the largest being the Statue of Liberty.
I hope they went to the main library - the first floor of that building is fabulous.
The friend and her son have to go home this afternoon, so any sightseeing had to be Saturday - and there wasn't room for all of them in the car, so they walked and did public transit. I probably won't hear what actually happened till tomorrow.
I scheduled my chiropractic appointment for the last of the day instead of the first, and when I got home, the card from my mother for my birthday (which is this coming Thursday) was waiting for me.
She's making a quick trip down on the weekend for my birthday and my sister's (which is next Saturday), and she's coming on the train since one eye is giving her problems at the moment. The plan is, I pick Mom up from the train Friday evening and we feed her (my daughter wants to show off some of what she found in the cooking magazines she brought home from Seattle when we went there in February), she stays overnight with my offspring (who have room for her), we go out to breakfast on Saturday and the kids drop her off to continue her trip down to my sister's shortly after that.