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A Golden Moment

 

  Happy fiftieth anniversary! These are the the pictures that were on our main page during their special celebration.

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We'd been planning this for weeks, the location was picked out, the beautiful Ritz-Carlton hotel in Half Moon Bay.

The weather cooperated and on the evening of Mom & Dad's anniversary dinner, the skies were blue and the Pacific Ocean was calm.

Here's the bridal couple, dressed for dinner. Their flowers are the same as they carried and wore fifty years ago. (No, we didn't just dust them off.)

The Ritz gave us our own private dining room, the service was great and everyone who ordered the clam chowder loved it!

The main courses were excellent as well, no complaints at all here!
Out in the courtyard of the hotel, a bagpiper came strolling in and serenaded us during dinner.
We had one big surprise left, they were astonished at the wedding cake we had the pastry chef make for dessert.
The cake had one of their original wedding pictures on it made out of edible icing, we thought that was kind of fun!
Mom and Dad enjoyed their evening, best of all, they didn't have to drive home and got to spend a night in the Ritz!
But not until after everyone joined them for a picture!

From left to right are Julia, Krista, Sarah, Dan, Rebecca and Jesse.

And we proudly joined them for a picture as well.
As we said, the weather cooperated and the beautiful sunset into the Pacific Ocean signaled the end of a perfect evening.