Birthday party

I thought I would take a few minutes to update everyone on what I did this year for my birthday. My birthday was on a Saturday this year so it was jolly nice being able to sleep in on my birthday for a change. A number of my friends were away for the weekend so I decided to have my party last Wednesday when more people were around. Tiffany kindly offered to make dinner for everyone and to hold the party at her place, a very good idea considering that my house cleaner only comes Monday and Thursday so by Wednesday we are normally a little low on clean dishes. On a side note it is really very nice having someone come and do laundry and clean the dishes and make a cooked lunch twice a week, I'm sure I will take a while to get used to not having this wonderful service when I leave here. Any way back to the party, Tiffany made a lovely curry for dinner and also organised party games and a cake. All I had to do was invite people, oh and I also made icecream for desert but more about that later.

A few weeks ago I told a bunch of my friends here about the little run in I had with a horse while driving my car 10 years or so ago. Apparently they enjoyed this story and I guess they thought it would be funny to hassle me a bit about it. So for the main party game of the evening we had a rousing game of "crash the car in to the horse", a twist on the party favourite "pin the tail on the donkey".

After the game I was presented with my very own racing car cake, and a very interesting cake it was. Now to accompany the cake I had made the icecream that I was shown how to make in my french cooking class in Vancouver. It was basil flavoured icecream and most people were a little skeptical about the desirability of having basil and icecream mixed together. Admittedly I was not all that convinced about the idea until I tasted it, but it actually works pretty well. Most people claimed to enjoy it, so either they were lying or it wasn't bad.


After cake we played a game of beans (a very cool card game) but unfortunately it doesn't really work so well with 10 people so the game wasn't the best, it works much better with 4 or 5 people.

That about raps up the birthday party. Tune in next time for photos of the Ukarumpa golf course, rather a grand course.