Friday evening the family got together and celebrated Vi's birthday at Maxwell's here in Fargo. From the outside, it's very unimpressive - in a strip mall with Domino's on side and Subway across the street. However, upon entering, it's a beautiful, cozy, upscale restaurant. I've always said that Fargo has more different type restaurants - it almost seems as if they use the city as a trial place for new endeavors. We had an excellent dinner. The service was impeccable and the food was superb.
After dinner, we went back to Michelle and Adrian's with the whole group, augmented by the addition of several kids who were not at the dinner. Fun sitting around the fire pit again and an open fire - weather was cool and eventually the moon showed up over the house next door - a waning gibbous moon which lit up the sky. I think we made a good dent in their wine cellar.
Saturday morning we went to Ryan's track meet at Fargo South. He runs in the 800 and 1600 meter events. I got tired just watching them run! In the afternoon, we went out to Holy Cross Cemetery and did some gardening and planting flowers at Vi's parents gravesite. Came out really pretty with the new flowers.
The rest of the day was just relaxing and doing a little shopping. In the early evening, we went out to Mapleton for Reilee's graduation party. Fun evening at local place called Hagge's where we met a lot of Reilee's friends as well as the rest of the family. We had not gone to the graduation in the Fargo Dome - only the immediate family went to that, but we enjoyed meeting everyone at the party (along with a libation or two). Someday I'll have to explain about the Taco in a Bag which we snacked on.
We had originally planned on everyone getting together back at Michelle's and Adrian's; however, by the time we left, it was kind of a general consensus that between the night before which went into the wee hours and the prospect of getting together at Melanie and Ken's on Sunday, that it was probably better to get some rest. Now there's a run-on sentence if ever I saw one.
Sunday we arose early and went to church service with Michelle and Adrian - beautiful new church which is actually going to be their social area after their new church is built just to the north. One thing about North Dakota is that you don't use right, left, etc., everything is north, south, east or west - as in go two blocks, turn north, etc. Easy to follow directions, especially when everything is flat and square - kind of a holdover from all the farmland which is done in mile-square blocks.
More tomorrow - don't think there will be any posts tonight after the party at Ken and Melanie's :-).
Turn north or turn south after two blocks is that similar to turn left at the rusted car in Gerlach or was that Lovelock.
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