Birthday for A Lovely Lady

We weren't quite sure what we were going to do for Cheryl's birthday this year, but we had a few ideas we were tossing around. One of them - going to Greenfield Village over near Detroit - didn't pan out because the place is only open in the evenings at this time of year, and while they do have this quaint little dinner event with historically accurate foods from various eras, the price for a family of six was prohibitively expensive (i.e. $60/person).

So we opted to first spend some serious time puzzling over some puzzles we received from some dear friends. Ten puzzles of varying sizes packed into a huge box.

So far, we've solved four of them! Go team!

Cheryl has always enjoyed venturing up to Meijer Garden to see the artwork, and at this time of year, they have an exhibit of "Christmas Trees from Around the World", so we went up to see that in the afternoon. It was a wonderfully warm (45°) day, so we were able to walk around the gardens outside and enjoy the fresh air. Then we wandered around the building and saw all the Christmas trees, which were amazing. And we also saw the train set that they put out every year to honor the "Polar Express" book / movie / whatever.

Since we'd spent the past two days cooking up all kinds of delicious food, we had a wonderful "leftover" dinner, and then watched "The Bishop's Wife" with Cary Grant and Loretta Young.