On
February 29, 2000 I celebrated my Sweet 16 Leap Birthday and divided it
into 2 parts. For lunch I took 12 people to The Cheesecake Factory and I
ordered a slice of each kind of cheesecake they had. In the evening I
took 26 people to eat at The Ark which has a Captain's Buffet table
consisting of most anything you could think of to eat.

You can
see 'scenes' from both The Cheesecake Factory and The Ark in the collage
that James made for me--which is a good thing because I am unable to
find the pictures that were taken that day except for the ones shown
here. (By the way I will be going to The Ark  also to celebrate the
19th. oooops! No I didn't as the Ark was closed by then !)

I received
many great presents that year but one of the best was a complete BBQ
dinner from Corky's in Memphis that Chuck sent and how could one not
love a 'money balloon'--I still don't know how they got the bills in the
balloon but I did wait for all the air to go out before I ripped it
open and took the money out! LOL Also, since I was fairly new working on
a computer, I got 'tech' stuff from Betsy, Bob, Nancy and Doug!

I
only had to wait 4 more years for my 17th birthday and that would be a
memorable one--some of the folks here at Gateway who came are still
talking about it!

People
ask "What day do you celebrate during the 'off' years?" and my answer
is "I don't!" I only celebrate my birthday every 4 years and when I do
it is usually all month! LOL I am now starting to save for my 20th Leap
Year birthday in 2016 (Heck! I'll be 80!) and starting to make plans.

February 29th is special...