Birthday

We managed to stretch my birthday celebration out over several days.  On Thursday the 24th,we were in the temple all day until after 5 pm.  We then met Alison and Quin for dinner at P F Changs at the University Mall.  On Saturday we had a sort of Open House with home-made ice cream with quite a few visitors, including Nathan & Gloria, the Blakes, Matthew and family, Steven and Heidi with Derek, and Paul and Daniel.  Thanks for all of your calls, best wishes, and gifts.

I received a maze for my birthday developed by Ben.  I wrote him back: 
To Ben:

Thank you for the maze.  I tried it.  First I went straight in but after circling around I ran into a dead end.  So I backed out and when on a diffferent route that was next to the edge.  After  a while I came to a split and went back into the interior but, after several turns, that too ended up blocked.  So I went back to the second split and then continued around the maze next to the edge.  Finally I came to a real skinny place, so I turned sidewise and slipped through and there was the exit.     

Love, Grandpa
Ben thought this was funny, especially about having to turn sidewise.