A Belated Celebration

Since Plante Moran gave their employees the Friday before Memorial Day weekend off as a paid holiday, Cal decided to take Wednesday and Thursday as vacation days also, giving him an almost week long mini-vacation.  He was pretty excited about it and the plans that he had made.  He and Jayce were going to spend the holiday in Indianapolis with their friends from Speedway to enjoy all of the Indy 500 activities.  Yesterday, Hannah-Marie came up to see him.  They went to Little Italy where he tried Peroni beer for the first time and then went to dinner at a new restaurant called Cluck It featuring different chicken dishes.

I had asked Cal last week if he thought that he might stop by home during his time off, but at the time he wasn't sure that he'd be able to see us.  Thus, I was pleasantly surprised when Cal called this morning to tell me that he was in South Bend on his way to Syracuse.  He and Hannah-Marie wanted to spend the day on the lake and he was hoping to see all of us tonight before he headed back to Chicago.  I was glad that we would all be home tonight so that we could finally celebrate Cal's 23rd birthday with the added accomplishment of passing the CPA.

Cal stopped by to see me for a couple of hours before he went to the lake.  I had fun catching up with him on the Koepka/DeChambeau PGA feud and the HBO mini-series, Mare at Easttown.  Meg, Doug and Cam all arrived by the time he got back and we had a nice dinner together complete with Cameron's Brazilian cheese bread.  Cal appreciated all of the presents that he received including the money hidden in his new Simpsons socks from Grandma and Grandpa and the suitcase plus travel bag from Meg and I.  He also opened a bag of his favorites, Deep Eddy Lemonade, cashews and pistachios, in honor of passing the CPA.  Doug had sent him his Russell Westbrook shirt last week so that he had it for the playoffs and Cameron showed him the Justin Fields Bears shirt that he ordered him that wasn't available until July.  It was definitely a fun night of celebrating Cal and we hated to see him leave.