My mother in law LOVES seafood. And for every celebratory occasion, she’s happy just to go to a seafood restaurant.

Really, we ALL love seafood, so we welcomed the opportunity to have a big appetizer for Riki’s 88th revolution around the sun.



It’s easy to make Riki happy here in Southeast Texas, because local seafood is a THING. But she also likes to order dishes that remind her of Seattle, where she lived for years after emigrating from Germany in the late 50s.

And of course we had cake.

Thank you to Truluck’s in The Woodlands, TX, for a lovely meal. It made our German transplanted / American citizen / late octogenarian very happy.