Adrian's birthday

Saturday was Adrian's birthday. He went to the rugby in town with his Dad (who was here to stay a couple of nights).

For the couple of weeks before I was busy planning a surprise party. I'd never done one or even been to one before so it was pretty fun trying to figure it all out! (thanks to Colin for the idea of blindfolding Adrian and taking him for a trip round Lower Hutt and back to our house - though I made him a bit car sick!).

I made Pin the Tail on the Nano-mouse for the first party game. Bex won! But then I realised I didn't have any prizes! :(

Then we played some home-made charades that I made up; Adrian kicked it off (haha that WAS actually an unintended pun) by pulling "David Beckham in jeans that are much too tight" out of the bag.

We had 10 guests altogether - Sam and Jane (Adrian went to school with Sam), Bex and Ants (I used to work with Bex), Sarah and Scotty (Scott works in the office next to Adrian at uni) and David and Sarah (squash people). So there was a good mixture of people! But it was a good number because any more and our lounge would have been too full! And everyone bought really lovely food and we had way too much (Adrian and I have been having some lovely lunches and desserts!). Thanks to everyone for being in on the surprise and Bex and Ants for organising to let everyone in and do the food! Twas great! :) O and of course the cakes that Bex baked and we iced together were awesome!

Incidentally I wanted to add this pic of Armi because she looks just so... I can't think of a word... just wrong.
























Now I want to see if this lets me upload a video: Well it wouldn't let me do the one I wanted, because it was too big (172 Mb and needs to be 100 Mb or less - how do I do that?).

Also, you might have seen a new element added to the side of our page -------->
I signed Adrian and I up to be part of an IRL team to do the Around the Mountain Relay in November (perhaps foolishly - we'll see!). Just click on the SPCA logo if you want to support our team and the SPCA! Thanks!

Bye for now!

xxx

PS> Bean update! He is wobbling around the lounge quite happily now. The cage we had on loan from the vet has gone back, and now we close him in the lounge when we're not here/ at night instead of the cage. I think he's a lot happier now he's not in the cage anymore - he can move around the room to find the sun! He goes up and down the stairs and stuff too, though I'm not sure he's meant to...