Addams Family V’s Munster Birthday Party.

On 23rd Feb (the first available time for everyone to get together – (oh the social butterflies that we are!!!) we had my 33rd Birthday Party.

It was definitely worth the wait! Everyone made a real big effort – as you can see from the photo’s! Considering that we finally got summer that day and was 40 degree’s, it cooled down to about 28 degree’s

Addams Family Cast Members.
Mortisa – Sue (perfected the Mortisa walk and rose cutting)
Gomez – Mark (Don’t talk French around this man)
Uncle Festa – Mikey (It was uncanny the resemblance! I loved shaving his head!!!)
Pugsley – Phil
Wednesday – Me

The Munster Family Cast Members.
Herman –Nick (10 out of 10 for Effort – for the papier-mâché forehead and
painting yourself green!)
Lily – Dionne (Dionne made her dress – awesome)
Eddie – Michael (love the knee highs)
Marilyn – Lesley (Lovely no matter what the hair colour)

We all had a great dinner of slow roast Lamb (thanks to Jamie Oliver) and Meringues made by Dionne.

Lesley and I had a little bit of a surprise for everyone – we had organised “Thank God you’re here….” Skits, which were a lot harder than we expected to organise, let alone play out.
Everyone was great sport, but all learned quickly it’s a lot more nerve racking than we realised.
Finished off with Family Pictionary on the white board.

Thanks again everyone, for your great effort – It was an awesome night!



Gallery can be found here.

Aunt Riet’s 80th Birthday Weekend

8-12 Feb Weekend.

Mikey, Johanna and I headed down to Wyoming (near Gosford 1 ½ hours north of Sydney) for Aunt Riets 80th Birthday.

We caught the plane to Newcastle, then hired a car and drove the 1.30hours south (Thank God for the GPS).

Had a little lunch at Riets when we arrived with Riet and her partner Bernie.

Johanna was staying with Riet, so we both checked into the Terrenora Motel down the road (never again!!!)

Then Dinner with everyone one and transport organised for the next day.

We organised to pick up Johanna and head out to the Birthday lunch at a wonderful Italian Restaurant, there were 21 of us in all, consisting of Riet’s relatives and Bernie’s relatives, we had a lovely lunch over about 3 hours.

Unfortunately our hire car was not locking so we had to go for a drive back up to Newcastle to exchange cars. So we took the opportunity to take the “Coast Road” back down – when we realised how spoilt we are in Queensland didn’t get to see much of the coast on the way. We stopped at the Entrance which was lovely and decided to bring Johanna back the next day for a day visit.

On the Monday Mikey and I drove out to the Hunter Valley for a half day outing – now these guys know how to have a cellar door. We only did 2 wineries but we were very impressed. Had the world’s most expensive Hot Dog ($10.50!!!!!!!!!!) then back home.

It was great to catch up with Riet and Bernie and meet all the new relatives, we had a great time.

Galeries, Riet and Party, Central Coast, Hunter Valley and Wineries

Springbrook

2nd Feb

Mum, Dad, Russell, William and us, all went for a drive down to Lamington National Park (2 hours south of Brisbane) we had a look at a couple of look outs on the way – depending on the look out, is depending on what we saw eg – thick cloud or a view of the Gold Coast.

Visited Purling Brook Falls and had a good view of the water fall and of teh rain forest.

We decided on walking the Twin Falls Circuit (there hasn’t been any falls in years due to the drought – but we’ve had a couple of days heavy down pour, so we were hopeful).

Mum and William got side tracked about 15minutes into the walk at the cascade waterfalls, so we left them to it to catch up.

It was definitely worth the walk, both falls were flowing it was great!
The four of us did the circuit without seeing the other two. Luckily William had his mobile, so were in contact. We had our picnic lunch about 2pm while we waited them the to catch up. They ended up doing another 4km walk and came out at another lookout, down the road, so we jumped in the car and picked them up.

The rain was coming so we called it a day and headed back home, with most of the family having a nap on the way.

Gallery