Just a few updates

• At the end of the big science conference last week, one of my teammates announced that since it was my birthday, he had made me a cake, and everyone was welcome to join us at his home for a party.
• My teammate Kim met us there and decorated everything with Tinkerbell stuff.
• We played Pixie Bingo.
• Here's my principal, in a Tinkerbell crown.

• I think you all know we've had our differences, but what you may not know is that in years past, I have truly been in principal hell. Like, legal teams arriving at the school to interview every staff member privately about the administrators.
• I'm not saying I'm in principal heaven. But I know a good thing when I see it.
• Plus, if it gets bad again, I do have a picture of him in a fairy crown.
  

• When I arrived at home after the party, Peter had scouted out a new Greek restaurant, and he took me and Rose out.
• He ordered us some kind of fabulous flaming cheese appetizer, and everyone shouted, "OPA!" when it arrived.
• Then the server quenched the flames with half of a lemon.
  
• It was so meltingly fabulous that Peter and I were both quietly cussing.
  
• The fleecy, polyester-shirted, Prince Valiant haircutted owner was COMPLETELY BESOTTED with Rose.
• He brought us complementary ouzo, and a Shirley Temple in a dainty sherry goblet for her majesty.
• He brought her a cookie, and,
• when she didn't care for it, replaced it with a chocolate sundae.
• She hugged him on the way out.
• And I hugged my husband.