Off to Cabo We Go...

Happy birthday dad! Today is dad’s 67 birthday. We are off to Portland tonight to celebrate with all of his children. R2, J2, mom, dad and me are leaving for Cabo in the morning. The plane tickets were $400 cheaper per person to leave from Portland, so that’s what we are doing. As an added benefit dad gets to have dinner with all of us AND Joe and Han-Mei. He wouldn’t pick a restaurant, so Joyce and I picked Typhoon on Broadway for him.

Joe and Han-Mei have been doing a massive remodel on a house they bought in Portland. We hadn’t seen the new siding, so we all decided to stop by their place before heading down to the restaurant.

In total there were nine of us going to dinner, therefore we needed two cars to get to the restaurant. This unsurprisingly led to a bit of a race since Ryan and I were driving the two cars. He passed me entering the steel bridge heading into downtown. I wasn’t thrilled by this but knew that I held my trump card, parking karma. Ryan passed the block with the closest street parking to the restaurant. I was feeling good about that street, so I turned. Needless to say I found an easy-in parallel parking spot, pulled in, bought the max time of one hour, which would take the time to 7:01, one minute passed when it is required to pay to park. We beat the second carload of people to the restaurant by a solid five minutes ;~)

The food at dinner was good but the company was great. We had fun catching up on all kinds of things. Dad was also in hilarious rare birthday form. We had planned to have the restaurant give him a special dessert but before we could even get to it he told the waitress, “I want coconut icecream with a candle in it.” I wish I had a camera to show his facial expression at the time as well. I’m certain we will all be laughing about this for many birthdays to come.

After dinner mom, R2, Joyce and I ran to the Nordstrom’s Rack because mom forgot her jacket and she wanted one to take on our trip. We had twenty minutes to take accomplish this task and did it in 15. Post shopping we headed for the La Quinta by the airport and called it a night.