Tim Samoff // Weblog (old)

June 10, 2004

A great birthday nevertheless...

Last night about thirty of us from church wer supposed to go to see the Royals play the Expos (and presumably, to beat them as they did at the game the night previous). It was rained out, though, so those plans fell through.

Now, while last night was also my birthday, the game had been planned prior to any widespread knowledge that the June 9th was my special day. This was all right with me, though — I’m not someone who has to have something extraordinary done for my birthday. But being that the game was planned and it was my birthday, I was definitely going to make the best of it.

But, as I said, the game was rained out, so the plans were changed.

It was decided that all of us should still meet up and go to dinner. While all thirty people were not going to make it to dinner, we came close at twenty-five. It was still going to be a fun night.

Here’s where I got a bit of news that made me wish for clearer evenings, though. While we were waiting for everyone to arrive in the church’s parking lot, I found out that it had been arranged for a birthday greeting to be displayed on the Kauffman Stadium Jumbotron screen!

Ok… How cool would that have been?!

(The funny thing is that all week I had been joking about this, but I never thought it would have happened.)

And now, because of a little rain, I will never see my name up on the gigantic jumbotron. (But, I guess I can still dream.)

Nevertheless, the twenty-five of us had a great meal (and a lot of fun) at one of my favorite midtown restaurants, Jerusalem Cafe, followed by ice cream at Murray’s.

No, I didn’t get to see my name on the jumbotron, but I did get to stuff myself with some amazing Mediterranean cuisine and a (much too big) banana split.

As a matter of fact, after all of the food that I consumed last night, all I really have to do to see a “jumbotron” is look down at my post-birthday belly!

Good times.

Posted at 07:31 am

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