Afternoons at the movies
Fun trips to the arcade
The mall and the big toy store
Action figures galore
Games in the park on sunny Saturdays
Pizza and salad for lunch
Watching TV and dinner with the folks
Precious time with your great-grandmother
Trips into the city
To see the dinosaurs
That haunt the grand museum
And dominate the floor
The boardwalk in New Jersey
The Skeeball and the games
Eating our favorite pizza
After playing in the waves
Winning lots of tickets
And trading them for prizes
Watching sunburned people
In all shapes and sizes
Our trips down to Virginia
And Washington, DC
Monuments and museums
That meant the world to me
Back to New York City
The Statue Of Liberty
The view from the Empire State Building
As far as they eye can see
Wall Street and Broadway
Times Square and Fifth Avenue
The Metropolitan Museum
And Lincoln Center, too
The Phantom Of The Opera
A show that must be seen
And the films that we enjoyed
On the IMAX movie screen
Then on to wider travels
Adventures in California
The beauty of the Southwest
Utah and Arizona
The boat to Alcatraz Island
Walking the Golden Gate Bridge
Heading south to the San Diego Zoo
And stopping by Legoland, too
Driving through the desert
At a hundred twenty-two degrees
Enjoying the majestic Big Sur Coast
High up over pounding seas
The bright lights of Las Vegas
That impressive magic show
Grand Canyon and Monument Valley
Places every soul should know
There were some characters along the way
Leroy, the crazy guide
The psycho killer pizza man
And the creepy French Crèpe guy
The latter was in Paris
Where we enjoyed summer days
At the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower
Memorable in so many ways
London and Cambridge and Stratford
The bus trip to Stonehenge
The lakes and mountains of Switzerland
Where the beauty never ends
Touring the Highlands of Scotland
Getting soaked in the rain
Standing stones and ruined castles
I’d do it all over again
Delightful dinners in Salzburg
Mozart’s quiet city
On the banks of the Danube
Where the hillside views are pretty
Visiting St. Peter’s
And the many wonders of Rome
The indescribable beauty of Venice
Stays with you when you come home
These adventures we took together
Every one a joy and an honor
But the honor of my lifetime
Is being your proud father
Happy Birthday, Michael!
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