Ilene's Birthday

We were pleased to be able to celebrate Ilene's birthday with her yesterday! She wasn't going to tell us, but her son told us that her birthday was coming via e-mail. He gave us just enough time to order a traditional Danish birthday cake and to invite some people over for dinner to celebrate!



We were joined by three people from the computer science department of the University of Aarhus: Niels Olof (on the left) and Eva and Andreas (on the right). Niels Olof and Eva had recently visited us in Boulder while attending a conference at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Max was very exicted to see both of them again.

Leysia and Ilene prepared a dinner of salad, salmon, mashed potatoes, and vegetables. This was complemented by three bottles of red wine (life is too short to drink white wine) purchased at our local supermarket and much fun was had by all!



The traditional danish birthday cake made for Ilene was a pastry in the shape of woman, covered in candy, saying "Congratulations Ilene!"







One of the highlights of the evening was when Niels Olof and Andreas sang the traditonal Danish birthday song for Ilene after we had finished singing the traditional U.S. "Happy Birthday" song for her.



Ilene said that she had a great time and we were glad that her son gave us the "heads up" we needed to throw her this party! Happy Birthday Ilene!