Two birthdays

We celebrated two birthdays in the past couple of weeks. John turned 63 on April 12 and we had a birthday supper at his place on the 15th with him and Cynthia. Brendon turned 19 on the 18th. We had a supper for him last Friday down in Shutesbury. He and Katie, Dusty and Dorothy were there. After we ate, we played Salad Bowl. We each put seven slips of paper into a big bowl. On the slips of paper were written familiar words, phrases, titles, etc., that we made up, 42 in all. We formed two teams: B, K and me; D, D, and E. There are three rounds. I: A person selects a random piece of paper from the bowl and explains it's meaning to his team members, being careful not to use any word that is on the slip of paper. When a team member says the right word, or phrase, that slip is set aside, and a second slip is drawn. That goes on for one minute - that person's turn is over, and it passes to a member of the other team, who repeats the process. It goes back and forth until the bowl is empty. The team adds up their score and puts all 42 slips back in the bowl, and round two begins, which is like charades, mimed with no speaking; round three, one word is used to elicit the phrase on the slip. There is a lot of laughter in this game!

John and Brendon and their birthday cakes.