My youngest baby turned 21 today. Hard to believe and a happy milestone.
We celebrated at “The Boiling Hot Pot” in San Francisco. This was Will’s choice and is one of his favorite haunts. You pay a flat fee and then get as much as you can eat of various meats and seafoods to dunk in four different flavors of boiling hot pot. Campbell and his friends had a ball and enjoyed the unlimited Saki and beer as well. They had a process for making Saki bombs using chopsticks to suspend the Saki shot above the beer and then pounding on the table chanting, “Saki, Saki, Saki, Bomb”. The “Bomb” coinciding with hard enough pounding to drop the shot into the beer. I tried one and decided it wasn’t something my tummy appreciated.
Campbell clearly enjoyed his “all about me” day. His friends left to right are Cody, Patrick, and Cameron (turtle). He’s known them all since elementary school and they’re a great bunch of friends. Will and Christine, Melanie, Laquita, Campbell’s girlfriend Molly, and Diana (meeting Melanie and Laquita for the first time) all participated. It was quite steamy as the evening wore on but the kids didn’t mind or even notice I don’t think.
Following dinner, the kids went back to Will’s house and got dressed to go clubbing at some fancy night club that Will had arranged. I’m not sure what time that all finished and they crashed on couches Chez Will – but I’m sure I had been asleep for many hours when they retired.
Here’s Campbell with the engraved beer stein that I got him as a gift.
This was one of those rare occasions when all three of my sons are in the same place at the same time. It was nice to see everyone having such a good time celebrating with Campbell and the folks meeting for the first time having pleasant conversations.
