Aunt Thelma's 102nd Birthday Party

So, we went to LA for Aunt Thelma's birthday party at the end of February.  This woman is incredible!  She lives in an assisted living apartment and they have some vacant apartments so we were able to rent one of the apartments for the weekend and were able to spend the entire weekend with her.  It was very nice.  They have activities all day, every day for the residents.  Thelma is the oldest one there.  She told me "No one else is even 100".  On Friday we did some of her activities with her.  There was a sing-a-long with a piano player and about 15 of us (including Thelma, Ron and I) joined in.  We sang patriotic songs, a few church hymns and some popular, well-known older songs and a few military songs since one of the leaders is an ex-marine General.  It was a total crack-up!  Most of them can't hear and couldn't follow along with the words on the printed sheets we were given.  Some were singing the verse when we should have been singing the chorus and vice-versa.  The piano player was getting very frustrated and kept trying to explain that you sing one verse, then the chorus, then the next verse, then the chorus again, and so on.  Most didn't get it so it continued on in this manner for about 12 songs.  I had a headache by the end!  We went to dinner that night with Thelma's daughter Pat and her husband Richard and it too was nice.
They had a birthday party for her on Saturday and her daughter Pat and family attended.  Below is a picture:

That's Thelma in the center, her daughter Pat to her right, Pat's daughter Alissa to Thelma's left.
Back row is Richard (Pat's husband and Mr. Wilhelm on Seinfeld), Me, Ron, a friend of Pat's (can't remember her name) and Larry, Alissa's husband.

Alissa is an acting agent and came across a request for a 100 year old woman to act in an ad for GE (a corporate video) so she recommended Thelma for the job.  Thelma auditioned for it a few months ago and they hired her, but not for the 100 year old part because they thought she didn't look old enough, so she got the part of the 96 year old woman.  Like I said, she's incredible!  Sher