No Cake is an Island

Technically, my sister and I were born two years and one week apart. Celebrationally, we share the same birthday. I suspect the practice was born out of convenience, a way for my parents to achieve a certain economy of scale. We each receive a gift, but we split a cake and a birthday song. While the idea of two cakes sounds appealing, the threat of a second birthday song keeps me from being greedy.

On Saturday, we had our traditional joint birthday celebration with immediate family. By "celebration", I mean we blew out candles, opened gifts and then had dinner at a Chinese restaurant.

The theme of the birthday cake was supposed to be based on Lost, a television show my sister and I both appreciate. My sister requested a plane broken in half (the front section where the survivors were located and the missing tail section). I requested a polar bear and a hatch leading down to the core of the cake.

What Aki's Bakery delivered was a modified tropical theme. The cake had an island, an ocean, a surfer, a hula girl, two dolphins and three palm trees. Sunk into opposite ends of the island were two planes, one with only the tail showing. I knew a hatch was unlikely, but I thought there would at least be a polar bear. Instead, there was that hairy blue monster from Monsters, Inc. (Sully played by John Goodman). Apparently, Lost is not one of their standard themes.

Next year, I might have better luck asking for choo-choo train decorations.