Final Weekend Down Under

In case you didn't know, I LOVE BIRTHDAYS!!!!  My friend Phill was going to turn 50 so when I got the invite for his birthday outing I immediately contacted his girlfriend to say that I wanted to take care of the cake.  It would be my gift to Phill.  I stopped by a French bakery that I pass everyday on my way to work and placed my order.  I also had them write Happy 50th Phil on the top.  On Tuesday everyone received an e-mail from Phill with the details for Saturday.  He wanted everyone to come to his house early for dinner and drinks before we went out.  After reading the e-mail I had a mini panic attack because he spells his name Phill not Phil, which is what I put on the cake.  I raced back to the bakery and had them change it, they said it would be no problem because it was so far in advance.  Friday comes along and a few of us had decided to go to Phill's to decorate for Saturday.  I stopped into the bakery with my buddy Dave to pick up the cake before heading to Phill's and the cake said Happy 50th Phil on it.  I looked at the girl and said his name is spelled wrong, I came in and had them change it.  She said, oh yeah--I was the one that changed it, oops.  I said um...can you add another l please?  She said no, the cake is from the bakery there is nothing we can do.  I almost started to cry and then Dave says, breathe in, breathe out Tiffany--it's going to be ok.  After leaving I said...I need a drink Dave!  We hit up a happy hour and then headed to Phill's.  I was going to deal with the missing l at a later time. 

 

We went to town on the decorations--we had a fun time putting them up.  I was the tape girl since I'm so short and definitely can't reach the ceiling!  Phill was very pleased with our work:)

 

Debbie, Phil, Yadranka and myself taking a little break from decorating. 

 

Saturday arrived and I had gone to the store and bought some chocolate icing and tips so I could fix Phill's cake...what do you think?!

 

 

I told Phil the story and of course he said he would have been fine with it saying Phil because people spell it like that all of the time, but I said, well that's not the correct spelling and I wanted it to be right!  The cake was fantastic I might add and everyone loved it!

 

I went to my first burlesque show on Saturday night.  I didn't really know what to expect.  I have seen the movie with Christina Aguilera in it, but I've never seen the real deal before.  I was completely blown away.  They did a classy job and all of us really enjoyed it!  I think Phill had a wonderful birthday which is what counts:)

 

Woke up on Sunday and headed to go play Lawn Balls, which is an Australian thing apparently.  It reminded me of Bocce Ball.  There was a group of us that had lunch and then played all afternoon.

 

 

You played barefoot, talk about F-U-N!

 

Brad, Brian, Debbie and Dave on the sidelines.  The course as you can see it pretty big.  At the end of the day Brian was the big winner with Dave in a close second. 

 

I must say that my last weekend in Australia was a lot of fun!!!