Wow - what a weekend! I'm now 27 and Caroline is now 30. Can you believe it? It's was a whole nine years ago that we were celebrating out 18th and 21st! How did that happen? Where did time go? I think we both seemed quite content moving into a new chapter of our lives. Personally, I think this is a great age because I still have a little bit of youth on my side but also more wisdom than I had, at say, 21. When the youth is gone and the wisdom is all that stands, there's always botox.
We spent the afternoon hours sinking champagne and oysters at Mead's in South Perth where I learnt that Caroline has developed an appitite for seafood! Who would have known? I guess was a case of you learn something new about your closest friends everyday! Following lunch, we headed to The Windsor Hotel for drinks with the lovely Skye, who is jetting off to her exciting new life in London (again) next week. Leigh collected me (off the Windsor Hotel floor) at around 6pm and we drove to Wanneroo for Thai with my folks. To finish, we enjoyed the sounds of Cherie and Chris Murphy at the Carine Hotel. What a way to spend a birthday... but the birthday weekend had just begun!
The following morning Caroline turned 30!! Yippee! We were off to ladies lunch at the Queen's followed by our gents, additional friends and Caroline's parent for... you guessed it... more drinks! We partied on in true style into the night with Leigh and I taking off home around 12.30am but that was nothing - The rest of the party didn't even sleep!
Sunday was spent on recovery with Leigh's friends and a good BBQ in Harvey, about a 1.5 hr drive south and the home of our countries best beef, oranges and milk! Could have been in much worse places! It was just fab. Anne and Hatham's new baby boy was also a total delight.
My beautiful, generous husband, Leigh, bought me a Christina Agulera ticket and a gorgeous birthday dress (although not worn yet). Mum bought me a fluffy white dressing gown which aided recovery from the weekend wonderfully! I have yet to get out of it...
So all in all, a great birthday weekend again. Different to past years in that it was not spent enjoying our 'UK family', the British sun and a local pub but certainly highly enjoyable none-the-less.
