birthday in the park

there is an important date in September to remember. The 20th is Lena's birthday.Turning seventeen! We started with a dinner at our place with the usual gang of us and Wells's and Trent and Matcham and Marcus. We ate fantastic roast lamb,slowly marinated in olive oil,lemon,rosemary and salt,and then slow cooked in the oven for three hours...Mmmm yum! Then we had flourless orange and almond cake and a large bowl of lollies.

we sang happy birthday and the German version and laughed and giggled for hours...

Then on Sunday we had the next party which was for Lena's volleyball friends.We headed to the Fitzroy Gardens and carried the B.B.Q. a table and esky,lots of food and drink ,more birthday cake, a large basket full of balls and other sporty activities.The bbq was fired up and the balls started to bounce and fly.

Then the fun began.One of the footballs ended up,very lodged in a palm tree.So then the rest of the day was taken up with trying to get the ball down .First another ball was kicked up to the tree but was too far to kick.Then Adam found a rubber mallet in the car and that was tied to a rope and was swung up to the tree .Then the rubber came off the handle and was also stuck.Then all sort of other balls and rocks were sent skyward.(keeping an eye out for passing elderly citizens)But the palm tree was very protective of its new found friend.

The sun set and the wind came and sent us all home to our warm houses. and the ball and the rubber mallet were still up the tree, Hopefully no-one is near when there is a big wind in sunny Melb.and objects start to fall out of palm tree in the Fitzroy Gardens...