Last week was my great-grandmother’s 90th birthday. We met at my mom’s house Saturday around 6:45 to drive to Vegas to surprise her. During the car ride I got to enjoy some Super Mario 3D Land and podcasts, which was fun. We visited with my grandparents for a bit before heading to the restaurant. Along with my aunt and uncle, their kids, my other uncle, and his daughter, we all hid and yelled surprise when Nana got there. She’s 90, but luckily she didn’t have a heart attack.

After dinner we all went back to my grandparents’ house. There was a delicious looking white cake with strawberry filling, but I didn’t eat any. We talked for a bit, but there was a super loud football game on TV with a lot of yelling (because what’s not exciting by people arbitrarily placed into teams and running into other people), so I escaped to another room to hang out quietly.

We went back to Nana’s house to sleep for the night. She spent quite some time explaining different rules and information she thought we’d need. This included the fact that we shouldn’t open a window because then someone could just come right into her house! Also, all the overflow drains in the house were taped-over. She doesn’t like bugs.

She did show me photos of her husband, who I never met, and his medals from World War II. That was very cool!

In the morning we got up at 6:15 and hit the road my 6:30. We were back early enough to have plenty of time for activities at home!