Brisbane Birthdays

Off to Brisbane this week to celebrate a number of worthy occasions.

Hugo is home for the week, always worthy of celebrating and a couple of family birthday's.

Hugo and I headed to the City on Tuesday, seeing the accountant and then heading to the Absinthe Circus Show. It had some great acts, but we left there a bit disappointed and so stopped by the Grand Central for a nightcap. One drink turned into 10 and before we knew it, we had missed the last train home and we headed back down the ramp to catch a cab.

Cate turns 18 and the family has chosen to head to the big smoke to celebrate in style. Eat Street Markets, complete with Mulled Wine and Curry on Friday night, before airport collections began

Saturday saw the sun rise on a Beautiful winters day in Qld, off to the Farmers Market in Carseldine, before heading to UQ to watch CD play AFL.

Sometimes a tough and hard hitting match, and at others it looked like a Under 8's Soccer Game, such as the girls were huddled around the ball, leaving so much of the field a wide open paddock.

From there it was off to Chermside to catch up with the others, have lunch and head back to the City Castle to regroup.

Saturday Night saw us heading to the Boundary Street Markets for dinner, drinks and music, before the oldies headed home and the youngies headed to the Valley via the Casino.

Uneventful trip home to the Castle on the train, and barely awoken by the kids getting home safely at 2.30am.

Sunday saw the kids backing up their efforts at Eat Street for lunch, Hugo and I adopting a much more sedate approach and lunching at home before making dinner for some of Hugo's family who visited for dinner and a cake to celebrate CD's and AB's birthdays.. As neither of those two arrived for dinner, Cate did the honours of cutting the cake and little Miss Almost 2 was transfixed.

Passing the plate back to her Mum and saying Get More, was a fair indication that the cake was a hit.

All in all, a great week, and after putting Hugo back on the plane bound for NSW this morning, I headed home to prepare for the end of the financial year onslaught of book work.