My 54th Birthday!!

Turning fifty-four is not so bad when you have a family like mine
I have a husband and two great children who love me and always do nice things for me

They certainly spoiled me today!

Firstly, Geoff made a special "Birthday Memories" Web Page as he does
When I opened it there was all the details of a beautiful white silk lounge suit ... and I love silk!!

Then, on the night of my birthday, Brett told me he was picking me up at 6.45pm
He arrived and we then went to pick up Tanya

We drove into Cairns to a beautiful Japanese Restaurant
We had all sorts of beautiful food
Miso soup, tofu, raw tuna, salmon, and squid, sea weed, prawns in tempura batter, sushi, rice
It was all delicious ... and I used chopsticks ... with only a little difficulty!
We had a nice bottle of champagne too!

During dinner, Tanya gave me a little present to open ... it was a packet of 'Happy Birthday' tissues
I just thought it was a little something to open cause you can't actually wrap up a night out!!

Looking around the restaurant, I noticed some cards displayed on a shelf and you can see the display in the photo of the interior below
These were the signatures of various people ...... and one was by Brett!!
Of course that meant I had to have the card taken down and have my photo taken with one of those famous people!!
As we were leaving, Brett also signed a souvenir for one of the waitresses

Even though we were very full we wandered along the Cairns Esplanade and stopped at a special ice cream shop
The shop has just opened in Cairns and is the same as one Tanya went to in Egypt for her birthday
I had white chocolate ice cream and a cappuccino - yummy!!

We took a bunch of photos and these are below
They were taken with my phone-camera ... and are not of the highest quality!
Faces look a bit shiney, heads are cut off, and some are a bit blurry
But that doesn't matter to me at all ... they are still very nice to have

Next stop ... the movies!!
The kids knew I wanted to see 'Mama Mia' ... and that was where we went
It was great ... I loved it

As the movie finished Tanya handed me a present and I could see it was a CD
I said ... "Is this the CD of the movie?" ... and it was
That was when I needed the tissues!!

Well, that was my day ... I am a lucky 'old' girl!