Things being what they were, we have many happy memories of the concert and Jane has this fine shirt to show for her efforts.

Since Jane had her shirt on, Benjamin got together his list of Pokemon cards and Sarah decided that it was time to think about finishing her college applications while Benjamin and I got Suzanne and began our pilgrimage to Staples which we entered by the front door so that Benjamin could browse until he found trading card pages to go with the index cards that Suzanne found.

Having brought our purchases home, Benjamin tried to get Sarah off the phone or at least aiming towards the camera so that we could begin our journey to Philadelphia.

Once in Philadelphia, we found a parking place near this elegant sign at this intersection and walked through the cold to get to the restaurant. Once inside, we washed hands and took this rest room sign for the collection. We were there first and recorded Sarah, Jane, Benjamin, Joyce, and Suzanne (who was incognito) before Joyce took this picture of me and the Slaughters arrived to this broken picture.

Martha was very excited to see us and bounced all around though Erika, Willa, Bill and Sam were much calmer. Once we had studied the menu Joe showed up, so we ordered this bottle of wine and this antipasto to tide us over before the main courses arrived. Sarah had this gnocchi dish, while I had the risotto porcini, Willa had this veal dish, Joe had this veal dish, Joyce and Martha ordered this clam and pasta dish while Benjamin and Erika had this pasta and Jane had this good looking salad even though it had shrimp on top. Bill and Suzanne had this veal chop dish which seemed to make them very happy. The waiter reappeared with this dessert tray showing off these wonderful delicacies of which we had a few cannolis, this lemon sorbet and this raspberry something or other.

At this point, Benjamin took over the camera and decided to focus on pictures involving pictures and pictures involving light. He began with Martha and then the glasses on the wall followed by the wreath and other lights and the white napkin. Next came Jane's Bat Mitzvah gift, the wreath again, and the light in the ceiling. After two pictures of the pictures on the walls, he turned to people pictures starting with Sarah and Joyce and then doing various views of those assembled at the table

and then a clearer shot of Martha. After an interruption for something known only to Miryan Orjuela, he was back to the people at the table and another Miryan picture before going back to the people pictures

which led to some pictures of glasses and then interior restaurant scenes

that ended with two pictures of Jane's gift.

Another wonderful meal on another holiday night made us happy for friendship and worrying that we'd have to go back to our diets.