It was about to be Dan's 90th birthday (or more precisely, the celebration of his birthday) so we parked the car at Philadelphia airport recorded our bags and made our way to the gate area where we realized we'd need to go here to choose food from the menu or the displayed especially if we were going to eat the food we brought before boarding and buying the fun pack that came with this bar and after a bad shot with these pieces in this container that also had pieces of crunch all to be served on this nice tray table as we ate and rode and soon were waiting for the rental car courtesy can so that we could load our possessions record the car's license plate and arrive to be greeted by the birthday boy at the Dansyl apartment where construction was going on outside their window as Jane and Suzanne sat and had conversation with Dan Syl Ben and me before we dug into the chocolate and Ben tried to take the puzzle apart as we admired the cookies that Larry made and Jane and Ben chose some fruit to bring along to the Residence Inn where we were checked in and admired the room by dark and by light

and from above before catching a bit of the Eagles-Cowboys game and then heading out to the ceremonial Christmas dinner of Chinese food at Ming Court where the shrimp the rice the sweet and sour dishes the beef and the vegetarian dishes kept us saying Ho Ho Ho for the holiday.