It started to cloud over so we went to an early matinee of the new Woody Allen movie, "To Rome with Love"...lots of fun. Beautiful day in the end so went for our afternoon swim (water just fabulous) then out to Cloud 9 for dinner. We had their 3 course menu...salad, duck breast, and mango cheesecake. Jim's dinner was free since it was his birthday....great deal.
We were enjoying the entertainer, Clyde Harvey, so much we had special coffees...Irish for me and Spanish for Jim.
It was such a beautiful night we went for a sunset swim and the light, clouds, ocean, trees, sky....were just amazing. I hope I can remember enough to do a painting. Being out on the ocean captured a certain angle I really loved. Guess we'll have to go for many more sunset swims until I get the picture in my mind.
Walking back we met Bill and Elaine, these folks from Boston who lived in the penthouse (before Hollyburn kicked them out so a family member could live there). They are really missing being in our building. It was a special day for them since they just got their Permanent Residency for Canada. Elaine is now teaching at UBC and they want to immigrate to Canada. So we had a celebratory drink at our place.
And there were even some distant fireworks aka lightning put on specially for his birthday I guess. A perfect ending.
I don't think there could be a more perfect dessert for Jim than mango cheesecake (except perhaps ice cream....)
Our favourite server who didn't sing Happy Birthday as a present to us....
"Piano entertainer, Clyde Harvey, has toured with Ike and Tina Turner,
The Guess Who, and even Janis Joplin. Since 1978 he has been a popular
performer in first class piano lounges in the US and Canada, and around
the world. Some of Clyde's international engagements include Morocco,
Korea, Japan and the Caribbean."