Hope you've had an enjoyable day Les
By pure coincidence one of my great nieces had to come to Brisbane to have a laser eye procedure which was booked for 8.00am on Thursday 19th.
So the whole family came down on the Wednesday afternoon & as my building is virtually across the road from the hospital they chose to take a couple of adjoining apartments on the the same level where i live.
I had also previously arranged for a couple of mates & their wives & kids to come over on the Wednesday afternoon to watch the footy that night.
They all seemed to turn up at around the same time but everybody quickly settled in.
All of the younger ones headed straight to the pool area with the remaining women & girls congregating in their apartments & all the blokes & boys in mine as that was where all the alcohol was & of course i have the big screen T.V.
I was tasked with taking care of tea which going to be Pizza's.
The pizza delivery arrived right on time at 5.30 pm so i went down to the foyer to collect it. We had been going backward & forward between apartments all afternoon so all of the doors had been left ajar.
Arms loaded up with pizzas, i return to my apartment only to find it empty.
As i turn to go over to the girls apartment, i am greeted by Joy carrying a large birthday cake. ( Joy is my older brother's widow, i had no idea that she was even going to be here, the anniversary of my brothers passing is of course on the 26th.) At the same time, led by my big sister, people started streaming in from the balcony singing happy birthday.
To say i was surprised would be an under statement.
Even though at times, things got a bit emotional, it was a wonderful night, capped off of course by Queensland's fantastic win in the footy to take out the S.O.O. series win.
My best mate would have loved it.