It was to be a busy time of celebrations which began when I hosted a lunch for Cynthia Cherrey (Campus Life), John Monagle ('12), Adi Rajagopalan ('13), Sarah Gerth ('12), Niveen Rasheed ('13), and Alex Daifoitis ('14).

Next, Suzanne had a surprise party for my 16th birthday and in honor of my advanced age, Dr Len and Judy decided to pose for a picture as people were in the olden days

On my real 16th birthday, Suzanne and i went to the vanGogh exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where we also had lunch with salads and pasta and were joined by Martha as Suzanne and I enjoyed but went back to the exhibits after van Gogh to see these saws.

Back at work, I went to give medals at the NCAA swimming championships and met Margaret Ferguson, the last family member for my collection.

Next, it was Jane's birthday and so Ben and I drove into the city to join Suzanne who was already there visiting Jane and before we could celebrate, we explored the possibility of hanging Jane's shelves and her basket before she opened her birthday gift from Sarah and we headed out for lunch passing this elegant sign of welcome and we walked past Hector's where we decided not to eat and this storefront for Hogs & Heifers not to mention this orange and black bag and a gas station and a flea market to which we would return before we found Colicchio & Sons and crossed the street to get there so that we could check out the menus and the bar covered by bottles of wine before Jane Suzanne Ben and I sat down to admire the granualr brown sugar and our drinks of varying colors as the donut holes arrived as we admired the size of their ice cubes before the omelet pizza burger and salad with egg arrived and eating began even before the sausage came. everything was divided and then halfs were shifted to the right for the second course when Ben posed with Jane before the bill arrived and we departed for the obligatory phone booth picture and trip back to Jane's apartment where Matt and his room mate Jeff arrived and the effort to hang the shelves continued now that we had the right tools. Matt posed with the feather cap and we headed back to New Jersey.

A few days later, I hosted a faculty lunch for Michael Meredith (Architecture), Thomas Christensen (Politics and Woodrow Wilson School), Mark Braverman (Computer Science), Robert Knowles (Chemistry), and Stephen Pacala (Ecology and Environmental Biology).

And, later in the week I had another student lunch for Preston Kemeny ('15), Bernice Fokum ('14), Flannery Cunningham ('13), Samantha Batel ('13), and Cynthia Cherrey (Campus Life).