Yesterday was my oldest child’s birthday. She’s had a few of them. One might say that she’s “over all that”. She’s 20-something, about to graduate from College, supports herself… so she probably didn’t notice.

But I did.

We all miss her so much! So what did we do? We had a party FOR her!

As I mentioned yesterday, we got Lorien a cake! Not just ANY cake… we got her a “6-layer fruit and whipped cream and glaze and moist cake from Dumbo’s” cake! It was 100Bs. That’s a lot here. Actually, at $12.50 for a cake, *I* think it’s a lot! But it was worth it!

They asked me what name to put on the cake. I told them “Lorien” and then spelled if for her, in spanish. Don’t ask me how, but L-O-R-I-E-N became “LOREON”! lol… I guess we’re fortunate that it wasn’t L’Oreal, a name that they DO know here.

The cake was huge. When I say “6 layers”, I’m not joking. There are about 6 layers of cake with filling in between each layer. The cakes are about 8″ tall. The cake that they use is moist to begin with. [I WISH I knew how they DID that! lol... Our NEW MAID comes tomorrow... maybe I can ask her!]

Then there is a yummy layer of something moist and sweet. It looks like pudding. For these really nice cakes, they also use some whipped cream between the layers. And there is fruit. We chose “frutilla”, which is strawberry. So there was something like strawberry jelly with the pudding/whipped cream in between each layer and most of the layers had sliced strawberries too.

Then on top of the perfectly smoothed whipped cream icing covering the cake, there is a draping of strawberry glaze artistically poured over the top and partially down the sides in a lovely swirling kind of effect. It’s as if a wavy circle of red were draped on top of the cake, extending over the sides.

On top of the glaze there is a rosette of whipped cream in the center, with 5 or 6 rosettes around the inner perimeter of the cake. In the center of each rosette is a frozen fresh strawberry.

It makes cutting the cake a bit interesting, but we weren’t going to stand upon principles! We lit the ONE candle that they gave us and sang Happy Birthday to Lorien…. took some pictures and dove into that cake!

wow… it kind of goes against the grain to throw something like that away, but there just weren’t enough of us to eat it! The refrigerators are kind of small, so we couldn’t keep the cake. We ate the biggest pieces of cake we have EVER eaten before and then thought good thoughts and sent up prayers for our precious daughter and sister, Lorien.

We love you precious. We miss you and wish you were with us.