Feliz Navidad!
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you all had a fantabulous day!
My festive celebrations began last week; the non-stop eating began Thursday night with my work Christmas party at Cookie on Swanston St. A whole bunch of food, drink and chats, which followed on with a boogie at good ol' Cherry Bar...the last time we'd dance to "Sex Machine" before the godfather of soul finally packed it in. We also managed to fit in a few egg custard buns at 1:30am.
The next day, a cuppa with Rach and then a 'raw stuff' overload at Shoya in the city with Janice and her visiting parents. It was incredible...two words: LOBSTER SASHIMI.
Only a couple of days before Christmas, and Andrew and I were out in the city looking for all those last minute Chrissy pressies, along with a million other Melbournians. We had a massive lunch at the Pancake Parlour before helping Janice take her parents and their 12 pieces of luggage to the airport...which was followed by a $10.80 e-Tag bill to get to Chadstone (it only took half an hour to get all the way there!). We destroyed any chance we had of keeping the waistline in check over the holiday period by visiting Koko Black...chocolate mousse martini..mmmm. As if we hadn't eaten enough, we then went to Sonja's place where she had provided about 11 food dishes for 9 people. Safe to say we only got through one of the four sticks of garlic bread, and she's probably still eating leftovers!
I worked on Xmas eve, so I managed to put the brakes on the eating ever so slightly, but Christmas Day was riddick. It started off with a day at Chris and May Yen's place, where the boys played Dota (of course) and the girls chatted and played Scattergories. We came up with some great stuff. For example (the letter was E);
Q: Things you find in the ocean
A: Eggs...of fish.
Those that hung around also engaged in a stressful 9-hole game of golf, via Nintendo Wii...Andrew and I lost by one stroke...damn the water hazards! After the narrow defeat, we comforted ourselves by going home and eating the most non-Christmas dinner ever; steamboat. I rounded out the night by falling asleep on the couch. Class.
Boxing Day, like Christmas Day was cold and wet, but finished up with a great celebration of my dad's 60th birthday...and again, WAY too much food.
From a very Chinese 60th to a 21st where I was the token Asian, it's been an interesting last few days! I made the mammoth drive to Flinders yesterday for Chelsea's 21st...getting lost and running into terrible traffic along the way. Somehow the sun came out for the garden party, and I couldn't have been dressed more inappropriately, or looked more out of place, but it was still a great day. A selection of my photos from both these events can be found after the jump.
I returned to civilisation and clear road signs in the night and ended up at Soph's aunty's mansion in Balwyn (which she's currently housesitting) for a hilarious trip down MLC memory lane, brought on by the realisation that we have our 5 year reunion in a matter of months! Does this mean I'm getting old? whyyyyyyyyyyyy......?!?!?!
My festive celebrations began last week; the non-stop eating began Thursday night with my work Christmas party at Cookie on Swanston St. A whole bunch of food, drink and chats, which followed on with a boogie at good ol' Cherry Bar...the last time we'd dance to "Sex Machine" before the godfather of soul finally packed it in. We also managed to fit in a few egg custard buns at 1:30am.
The next day, a cuppa with Rach and then a 'raw stuff' overload at Shoya in the city with Janice and her visiting parents. It was incredible...two words: LOBSTER SASHIMI.
Only a couple of days before Christmas, and Andrew and I were out in the city looking for all those last minute Chrissy pressies, along with a million other Melbournians. We had a massive lunch at the Pancake Parlour before helping Janice take her parents and their 12 pieces of luggage to the airport...which was followed by a $10.80 e-Tag bill to get to Chadstone (it only took half an hour to get all the way there!). We destroyed any chance we had of keeping the waistline in check over the holiday period by visiting Koko Black...chocolate mousse martini..mmmm. As if we hadn't eaten enough, we then went to Sonja's place where she had provided about 11 food dishes for 9 people. Safe to say we only got through one of the four sticks of garlic bread, and she's probably still eating leftovers!
I worked on Xmas eve, so I managed to put the brakes on the eating ever so slightly, but Christmas Day was riddick. It started off with a day at Chris and May Yen's place, where the boys played Dota (of course) and the girls chatted and played Scattergories. We came up with some great stuff. For example (the letter was E);
Q: Things you find in the ocean
A: Eggs...of fish.
Those that hung around also engaged in a stressful 9-hole game of golf, via Nintendo Wii...Andrew and I lost by one stroke...damn the water hazards! After the narrow defeat, we comforted ourselves by going home and eating the most non-Christmas dinner ever; steamboat. I rounded out the night by falling asleep on the couch. Class.
Boxing Day, like Christmas Day was cold and wet, but finished up with a great celebration of my dad's 60th birthday...and again, WAY too much food.
From a very Chinese 60th to a 21st where I was the token Asian, it's been an interesting last few days! I made the mammoth drive to Flinders yesterday for Chelsea's 21st...getting lost and running into terrible traffic along the way. Somehow the sun came out for the garden party, and I couldn't have been dressed more inappropriately, or looked more out of place, but it was still a great day. A selection of my photos from both these events can be found after the jump.
I returned to civilisation and clear road signs in the night and ended up at Soph's aunty's mansion in Balwyn (which she's currently housesitting) for a hilarious trip down MLC memory lane, brought on by the realisation that we have our 5 year reunion in a matter of months! Does this mean I'm getting old? whyyyyyyyyyyyy......?!?!?!
Dad's 60th
The boys of the "kids' table"
The girls of the "kid's table"
Family and the cakeChelsea's 21st
Cait, Chelsea, Manda, Jess = retards
Silliness and good times
The birthday girl and I, and Cait being...special.
Kenwood girls.
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