Friday. 11th. The plan was to have everything done on the Friday, and it would just be a last minute tidy up and food prep on the Saturday. Yeah that didn't happen. I worked most of Friday not even knowing if the party would go ahead. Took a RAT. Negative. Decided to do the food shopping.
This isn't even everything. I delegated a bag of frozen stuff as there was no way it was all going to fit in our freezer.
Saturday. 12th. So most of Saturday was cleaning. Sigh. But. I had a saviour. Tony came up a little early and did all the food prep while I finished up. (Took a RAT at lunch time - still negative).
From 4pm peeps started arriving - it felt like all at once!! It made my brain explode heh.
We did cake at 6pm, which Tab made, because she's awesome.
And there was the funniest rendition of Happy Birthday I've ever heard in my life - everyone sung in different keys and at different speeds. Think the Hogwart's school song from the first book. It was just like that.
Duncan pointed out that I'd be competing with the soccer, so I warned the sweetie that we'd likely need to put it on. And sure enough we did! It was a pretty epic finish with a penalty shootout.
Tony also brought a massive glowstick he'd had since Jess was little. We had no idea if it would even work - but it did!
And I put candles in the bathroom because don't candles in bathrooms look awesome!?
In the end thirty people came. I had heaps of fun, and I think I managed to talk to everyone, even if only briefly for some of them. But a massive shoutout to Tony, who'd had a bit of a big night the night before and so felt up to just helping out. He managed all the hot food in the oven the entire night which was a *massive* relief for me, as I could just enjoy the party instead of being distracted dealing with the food (which is what happened last time). Thanks Tony!!!!!!!
Sunday. 13th. Woke up at 6:30am. After getting to bed at 2am. Because that's what I do. Kit left fairly early to go have breakfast with her brother and SIL. Then I cleaned up. Did a couple of loads of washing up of glasses and dishes, and sorted the rubbish and recycling.
Other than that not much else. My cough decided to go from just being a slight gentle cough to moving to my chest and being quite chesty. Hurray.
Monday. 14th. Slept from around 9pm til after 6am yayyy!! But it was kind of a boring day really. Took another RAT late morning. Still negative. Went into the office before lunch because Maddie had made me a cake (she didn't get the memo I WFH Mondays :) ). It was really nice!
Then went to the chemist, and picked up takeaway KFC on the way home for lunch. We had Chong Co delivered for dinner (didn't go out because the sweetie had to leave for Adelaide in the morning and it would have been all too hard). They haven't had the "crying duck" style salad in ages, but turns out the wagyu salad is basically identical! Also got satay chicken and crispy pork with chili jam.
Then I watched Dragonheart while the sweetie packed and got ready.
Saturday. 19th. Syd-ah-nee bound. I drove the first half. We listened to a couple of episodes of The Lazarus Heist, about the alleged hacking of Sony by North Korea. Swapped driving half way. The GPS took us a bit of an odd way into Sydney - round the back of the airport and up through Alexandria (but not even the way the Murray's coaches do it). Sydney keeps changing. Like a lot. New roads (the M8, never even heard of it!), new tunnels, new bridges. Craziness. Got to the hotel around 1pm, parked ($45, but still works out cheaper for the two of us than coach/bus/train/plane), and checked in.
Then headed off to the pub.
I'd settled on the Keg&Brew in Surry Hills. Simply because it looked like it had enough space to go to without a booking, had a rooftop bar, and it was right next to the station.
We ended up on a decent sized table and nine people came, as well as us. It was funny though because there were *five* different streams - Mum's family, Dad's family, the Clan, CIA, and Uni, and not many people knew each other (but enough did so that noone had noone else to talk to).
The sweetie got a couple of pizzas (two for one FTW!)
And I had a lovely afternoon :)
We booked a table downstairs for dinner and the sweetie and Mum and Uncle Graham and I went down for dinner when the soccer started (it was a little bit noisy heh). Mum and I split crispy pork belly and cripy potatoes which was very nice.
Then we went back to the hotel and crashed.
After seeing the end of the soccer (4th place!! Still pretty epic!!)
Sunday. 20th. Was awake for many hours in the middle of the night. Too hot. The aircon wouldn't go down below 21C which was way too hot, and didn't notice the ceiling fan til the morning (the sweetie did but I wasn't paying attention when he suggested turning it on). #grunt. So slept like crap. But then we got up and headed home.
Got to go through the M8 tunnel this time.
There were people falling out of the sky at Picton. Had some brunch at Sutton Forest. Listened to some more of the Lazarus Heist.
And Lake George is still very full.
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