In typical Polly style, the festivities were heavily focused on food. We kicked off the weekend with a big bagel brunch on Friday morning. After brunch we split up and headed to our respective kitchens where we turned out tray after tray of mouthwatering delicacies.
Due to the crazy weather we all opted to squish into the Fambily house to avoid having to walk home in the rain. We sat down to dinner accompanied by a symphony of pouring rain and rolling thunder. Throughout the meal we commented on the thunder and occasionally stopped to watch bolts of lightning flash through the sky.
We were eating our main course when there was a particularly bright bolt of lightning immediately followed by a loud crack of thunder that made the walls shake. Everyone looked around in awe as rain and hail pounded on the windows. I looked out the window and noticed that something looked a little off. Closer inspection revealed that the lightning had struck a nearby palm tree, causing it to go up in flames.
Everyone panicked and crowded around the window to watch the palm tree blazing in all its glory as the rain and hail whipped around it. A firetruck passed by as fiery chunks of the tree came loose and floated across the street. The firemen didn't seem to find the matter overly pressing and continued down the street to respond to some other call that they had gotten.
We continued to watch the trees demise as the top of the tree cracked off and tumbled to the ground where it was drenched by the rain and finally went out. The firetruck came back around and stopped by the still smoldering tree. They unpacked their hose and somehow managed to miss the tree on their first try. They made a few more attempts to put out the already extinguished tree before packing up their equipment to head back to the fire station after a job well done.
Lunch was infinitely less exciting than the previous meals spectacular light show, but there was loads of delicious food and birthday festivities to compensate. We napped, played and ate lots of deserts until shabbos came to an end.
We ended the weekend with a pizza party before saying goodbye to The Freddie's and Nemdy's.
I think I might be in a pizza coma after volunteering to eat all of the leftover pizza. It was delicious and I have only minor regrets about my selfless decision.
All in all, a typical family get together.
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