The Birthday Month

Well, it didn't work out quite as expected.

I had planned to go away on the 8th and 9th,have a big party on the 15th, and go to a lodge on the 22nd, which is our actual birthday. The 8th and 9th was scrapped as we had wanted to go to the farm but due to certain people (not us lol, read previous post) acting like children we didn't go. Then on the 15th we were invited to Omaruru, so off we went,and the party was scrapped.

It was the Festival of Arts or some such in Omaruru, so that would have been great to go to, but as usual that didn't work out either. Pio's cousin Behan and his wife Androette had a baby and so we collected Granny in Omaruru and drove on to Otjiwarongo to spend the night there and see the little mite. Kayla is tiny! We had a lovely evening and a braai with them, saw the baby, which sent Granny over the moon and she kept wanting to know when I would have one.

On Saturday morning we drove to Lilian and Jacks' farm on the outskirts of Otjiwarongo. Unfortunately I surprised them and so they weren't particularly happy to see me but showed us around. The farm hasn't changed a lot from when we were there - just bigger gardens and a lot more bird cages! They have the most incredible birds, imported from all over, in the most beautiful aviaries.

After that we drove back to Omaruru and had a really quiet evening, watched the rugby, and went to bed early.I also walked into a glass door without even having a drink :) proof that alcohol doesn't really cause you to do idiotic things! Sunday we had breakfast, Pio went to see Dan's huge collection of old cars, and then drove home.

Our actual birthday weekend went down the tubes as well as no one could look after the house, so on the Friday night we had a braai on the beach with Rian, Anika and Joani, which was really good. We had huge t-bone steaks, froze to death, and they made us down totally vile concoction to apparently celebrate our birthday. It hit Pio like a ton of bricks so he was man-down, and we then decided to go to General's for a drink, which we did and then went home.

On Saturday we watched the rugby at Gruner Kranz, ran into Vanessa and Wentworth, and they also did their best to get us drunk. We ducked home early after the game and had a very uninteresting Sunday chilling and watching TV.

So all in all the birthday wasn't quite what I wanted it to be, but we had some fun!