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A Vegas-ish 40th Quarantine Style Birthday

Title (Dublin Core)

A Vegas-ish 40th Quarantine Style Birthday

Description (Dublin Core)

At the start of 2020, my group of college friends planned a trip to Las Vegas to celebrate a dear friend's 40th birthday. As we all live in different areas of the country, it was clear by the start of April that the trip would not be happening due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After 20 years of friendship, we couldn't let a milestone like this pass us by. We decided to throw her an over the top Zoom birthday party. I put together party packs, complete with colorful wigs, dessert plates, confetti and cocktail stirrers, and sent to each party guest. The birthday girl's package had strict instructions directing her to wait to open right before the start of the party. Together, the guests made a photo slideshow that included the top 40 things that we love about our friend and read it to the guest of honor during the party. We also decided to make a cocktail together and brought our own desserts and candles so that we could sing to her. The group coordinated with her husband to make sure that she had the cocktail supplies and a dessert to join in the fun. It certainly wasn't what she had imagined for her 40th birthday. But it was unique, thoughtful, a lot of fun, and definitely a memory to last a life time.

Date (Dublin Core)

June 12, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Shanna Gagnon

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Shanna Gagnon

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

photograph

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Social Distance
English Events
English Entertainment: Movies, Theater, etc.
English Food & Drink

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Las Vegas
Zoom
festivities
friends
#pandemicsummer
#sanfranciscobayarea
birthday
Nevada
California
San Franciso

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

#sanfranciscobayarea
pandemic summer
Zoom
milestone
birthday
Las Vegas

Collection (Dublin Core)

San Francisco Bay Area
Humor
COVID Birthdays

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

San Ramon Valley Unified School District Coronavirus News, Pre-School Closure
HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

6/18/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

6/18/2020
06/23/2020
06/25/2020
11/13/2020
07/02/2021
08/02/2022
10/13/2024

Item sets

Covid 19
Teaching
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on June 14, 2020 by Shanna Gagnon using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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