Last summer when I was in Bloomington, I noticed that a banner for the play “Clue” was hanging up at the IU auditorium. I was super excited about that as the 1980s movie was always a favorite of our family’s. Even better news followed when I saw that it was at IU on Cameron’s birthday. He and I made plans for me to return so that we could celebrate his big day and see the play together hoping that others would be able to join us as well.
I arrived late night with a few changes to our original summer plans. First, we weren’t quite able to get the entire Heinisch family to join us as most had to work on Cameron’s birthday. Second, we had to buy tickets to Clue for the day after Cameron’s 20th since he had a meeting tonight. Lastly, none of us realized that we would be having this celebration during a frigid week with temperatures in Bloomington well below zero. Thankfully, we were able to navigate the changes and weather well and Cameron had a wonderful day.
First, I picked Cameron up around noon so that we could make a few stops before Cora’s class ended including one at the record store where Cameron found both a vintage Beatles album and one from the Supremes. Cameron next chose Big Woods for lunch, and I enjoyed getting to know Cora while we ate. She was just as Cameron described her and I was glad that they were so compatible. We stayed there talking longer than I planned, which was ok with me since none of us were excited about going back outside. We did make it to Kirkwood afterward to shop at a few of the IU stores. We didn’t find anything but had fun window shopping and fortunately didn’t freeze to death either.
Before I dropped them off for the afternoon, we ran to the College Mall so that Cameron could get a free "birthday" smoothie. I then went to Brett's apartment for the evening where I enjoyed the warmth and worked on several projects. Brett picked up Crumbl cookie for Cameron's birthday on his way home from work and still made it back to the apartment with enough time to change clothes before Cameron and Cora arrived. We enjoyed Pizza X together and watched Cameron open his gifts. He received a cute Lions shirt and keychain from Cora, a Swamp Head flannel from Doug, a Red Hot Chili Peppers vinyl from me and even a Bob Dylan biography from Robert Zimmerman. Cameron loved all of his gifts with the biggest surprise of the night, a 1970s fight song vinyl from Brett featuring the top forty marching band school songs. Afterward, we played Sorry and introduced Cora to Bluey before they left for the evening ending a wonderful day celebrating Cameron's 20th.
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