Birthday Boy

For those not in the know, Huddy is Sam and Hudson’s child. Sam is a very good friend on Ivy and mine. We went to high school together, we lived in Taiwan together and we traveled the world together. So of course, Huddy is very important to us also.

The party was a great success. We had wonderful weather and a fantastic barbecue. There were a bunch of kids running around playing games while the adults talked, drank and ate. I ate a little too much and ended up falling asleep in a window box for a couple of hours. But that was all good.

The best part of the day was giving Huddy my present. I made him a pretty kick ass little house out of two old fridge boxes, complete with window, door and welcome mat! I also wrote my card on a big piece of cardboard for him. It read:

Home away from Home

Well Huddy you’re a big boy now, time to leave the nest! Here’s a nice little one bedroom place where you can stretch your wings. Happy Birthday Love Kivy.

He loved it and so did pretty much everyone else. Was totally worth the extra effort.

Twister!

The night was pretty fun. Good music, good eats, good people. There was a girl their that had an plethora of little party tricks that she was sharing with everyone. It was a good way to break the ice.

Of course there were kiwi guys there, so the rugby was on, NZ vs. Australia. NZ won!

At one point in the night, much to my surprise a twister game came out. The girls all had a go and the boys seemed quite content to watch them. Ivy was the first out in the first game. Later in the night she managed to come second… but to be fair there was only her and another girl playing.

All in all not a bad night. Still a bit sad Ivy and I didn’t get to throw our own Halloween Party this year, but we were just to busy with school, work and the move. Which reminds me I need to tell you guys about our new flat. Will try and get a post up in the next couple of days.

Here is the scavenger hunt list:

Photo of team with no less than 4 Asian tourists.

Photo of team on roof of a car parking building.

Photo of team on the free shuttle bus.

Photo of yesterday's front page of 'The Press'.

Photo of team in a lingerie department.

Photo of an event poster.

Photo of team surrounded by erotic items.

Photo of team holding an engagement ring in a jewelery shop.

Photo of team with sign "Where United and City" live.

Photo of team on a hotel bed.

Photo of team in a human pyramid.

Photo of team with a policeman.

Photo of a car that was manufactured before 1980.

Photo of a church steeple.

Photo of a book by author Tolken.

Photo of team sitting at an outside table of a cafe.

Photo of team hugging the Chalice.

Photo of a New Zealand flag.

Photo of team with time.

Photo of team in/by a fountain.

In the end, our team was the last to return, a whole 5 minutes late. We were also the only team to get photos of everything on the list. Although we did cheat a little by getting our photo with the movie of ‘Lord of the Rings’ instead of a book by Tolken.

Did we win? Nope, another team got a bonus for being the first back. A very big bonus. We were so robbed.

Face Painting

Today we had our annual Christmas Party for the children at the Pre-School where I work. The day didn’t start off to well. We opened the center to start setting up for the festivities, only to find that one of the class guinea pigs had died over night. The poor one that was still alive was head butting the dead one trying to wake it up. So we quickly cleaned that up before the kids started to arrive.

Once everyone was there the party was going great. We had an Ice Cream Truck for the kids and a Coffee Truck for the parents. Dawn the center cook had the BBQ going full bore supplying the masses with sausages and candy floss, while teachers were painting faces, talking to parents and playing with the children. There was also a parent their, who has a bunch of ponies, giving the children pony rides.

Pony Rides

After a couple of hours of playing and eating. Santa made an appearance. He did the rounds shaking hands and scaring babies before sitting down and handing out presents and candy canes to all the children. As you’d imagine the kids loved Santa and he had their full attention for a good half an hour. This gave the teachers and parents time to sit back and relax a bit.

Santa!

All in all a great day!

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