Happy 50th Birthday Victor!
Here are 50 reasons why we love you.
1. Victor’s love and passion for helping the environment
2. The Led Zeppelin door
3. Skiing with Victor especially when he’s sporting his green wig or gorilla outfit
4. Victor’s taste in music…Charlie Daniels Band, Allman Brothers, Celia Cruz…
5. Hiking with Victor, no matter the weather conditions, the nastier the weather the more exciting the hike
6. Victor’s harmonica playing, an expert at the Wizard by Black Sabbath
7. Victor’s amazing dance moves
8. Victor has a notable ability in tree climbing
9. Victor’s love of cigars
10. His famous motto after graduating college, “Fun Maximization”
11. Victor’s dives
12. Great taste in cafes. Café Reggio is our favorite
13. Victor has taught his sons and nieces to swim and ride bikes and tries to teach them how to sail
14. Victor’s love of literature and reading. We have great memories of him reading to all the kids, especially, Little House on the Prairie
15. Moonwalks
16. Moonwalk speeches
17. Victor’s love of history, reciting the Gettysburg Address at parties is a big hit
18. Victor’s bucket lists and how he goes about completing them, national parks and monuments to see, trying to climb every mountain over 4,000 feet of altitude in the Northeastern United States
19. Victor’s seven years as a Sunday school teacher at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in New Canaan
20. Jamming with Victor, he never holds back
21. Listening to Victor’s stories, they get more interesting the older he gets
22. Victor & Miki’s vacation at an environment conference in Boston. You can’t make this stuff up.
23. Victor getting jumped by police on the George Washington Bridge
24. Attending the Women’s March with Miki in Washington, DC in January 2017
25. Watching Victor and Aurelio Victor sailing together
26. Watching Victor and Lucas have a catch together
27. Victor wearing red in honor of Women’s Day
28. The time Victor summoned the lightening and rain storm with his drum playing with Bradley on the beach in Cape May
29. Victor, Ricky and Carlos’s Vermont house and their generosity with sharing it with everyone
30. How Victor has taught all of us to recycle starting during his high school years
31. Victor’s sense of humor, for example, pulling pranks on Granny during Thanksgiving
32. Victor’s love of the words “great” and “amazing”
33. Victor’s famous sailing trip with Sophia to Rattlesnake Island
34. Victor and Bradley getting lost while hiking, Bradley called Allison but Victor didn’t call Miki, but she did receive a call from a fire department in upstate New York a day later
35. Victor’s story about Lashonda’s bike crash in Amsterdam
36. Victor, Ricky and Carlos’s love for bird watching, Ricky is the only one patient enough to see birds
37. Victor’s belief in being the chooser, not the choosee
38. Victor, maker and founder of the Yodel cake
39. Victor’s love for arguing with Granny
40. Victor puts 200% into everything he does
41. Victor runs the Green Tent at Mayfair
42. Victor singing the Oreo ingredients to the kids
43. Victor’s creativity
44. Victor’s curiosity and interest in everything
45. Victor’s love of chocolate
46. Victor’s can opener, especially when he gets Granny and all the cameras wet
47. The time Victor got the kids to scare the adults on the moonwalk
48. Always making people laugh
49. Victor’s brutal honesty (there is no filter) but he is always true to himself
50. Victor’s love and adoration for Miki, Aurelio Victor, Lucas, Ziggy and his family
51. Bonus reason: trying to teach Aurelio how to skiWe love you Victor
