Happy Birthday, George......India Style!

What a day of celebration!

It began with birthday greetings sung by our grandkiddies, Kira, Deja and Carson on Voxer from Abbotsford.

When we got to the university, Arpit arrived with the chocolate cake he had promised to bake for George.  Taksh was already at school.

Later in the day, George cut that cake and Arpit did the customary first bite.

The class today was Business 100, and  Tarundeep presented a beautiful bouquet on behalf of the class.

Akshat and Armaan brought the cake.

The class actually had their regular lecture--after all the photos.

A great tribute from a great group of students!

Here are a few of the individual congratulations.

           Pukhraj  and Supreet

Sumanpreet

            Gurpreet and Chahat

Shubham

                  Ishpreet

Anmol

and there are many more photos that would fill a book!

Then, off we went with some of the UFV Team for lunch at the Willow Cafe.  In true Indian fashion, George should have bought this lunch but.......

Pryanka and Sapna delivered a beautiful card.

 And then the intrigue began........

While Gurneet whisked George away to run some errands, we all hurried over to the home of Consul General Scott Slessor for the surprise event.

I don't think this took quite as much planning as is needed for visiting dignitaries, but it came pretty close.

Mushtaq got into the spirit of the evening.

 George thought he and Gurneet were stopping at Scott's house for a dinner meeting, but was surprised to find us all there.

The dazzling Dilmeet had the special birthday cake.  Now this was cake number 3!

The candle was quite amazing.  It flamed up, opened out like a lotus flower and then played music.

Angry bird, Gurneet, had done it again.  Amid all the preparation for the busy weeks ahead, he and his staff had managed this surprise party.

They presented George with a boxful of very useful gifts including a stand for his glasses, sudoku toilet paper, a credit card/pen drive and a double ended thermos bottle.

I went to one of my favourite shops, Fabindia, to get him some suitable clothing for Diwali.

Adi, Dilmeet, Jeevika and Simlee

along with Adi (how did he get in yet another photo?) and Mushtaq...

along with Adam, Kathryn and Stacy

 enjoyed an evening with Scott.

To top it off, our Chandigarh family was treated to a delicious meal prepared by Scott's chef and served by his very gracious Deepak.

Thank you Scott, the UFV Team and all the students for making this a truly memorable birthday for George!

I'm thinking of coming back here for mine!