American in Spain

Grandpa Ramón's 87th Birthday

June 26, 2007

On Saturday, we got up, packed our bags, and drove to Mondragón to celebrate Grandpa Ramón's 87th birthday. CIMG3736.JPG

That's a lot of years. It's easy to calculate people's ages when they're born in a year divisible by 10.

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It's not a prime number. Since the sum of its digits is divisible by 3, 87 is also divisible by 3.

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The numbers had to be moved to the cake that had the "Congratulations" banner on it.

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Check out the reflection of the long white table in his glasses.

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A great smile from Grandpa. 87 and still going strong.

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I hope to take many more pictures of Grandpa Ramón in front of a cake. I love him like he was my own grandfather.

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Recently the Extremadura Cultural Center has had these little ladybug chocolates that they give you when you order a coffee. Every time I see them, I'm reminded of my favorite java applet game ever. Most of them are really kind of cute. I was the only one that got the creepy blond you see on the left. That's not a lady bug!

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Belén was sick, unfortunately.

Unlike last year, my intellectual property rights were not violated at all during the birthday party.

Marga wasn't feeling well, so I had to moderate my wine consumption so that I could drive three and a half hours west...to León!