Gavin's Xmas party

 The annual party dressed in my usual garb ("Rocker with a Mullet"!)  The food as usual was stupendous.

Hiking Xmas party in Newtown

What a fun night out!!

Any excuse to wear my mullet and have hair again!

Gavin and I "hunking" it up for Elna to make her cousin jealous!

The food at the Thai restaurant was sensational!!

What better way to finish a night out than an 80's milkshake and chocolate crepe at Max Brenner.

Andreas's belated 50 th and Octoberfest Party.

As usual, the kids had a ball!

Partying in The Blue Mountains

The theme of Dani's 40th party was The 80's. I went as a punk rocker with a huge mullet.  It was a wonderful experience having so much hair!!

Highlights of the weekend

• The great house that we rented for the weekend.
• Going up on the Friday afternoon and buying alcohol for the party.
• A lovely meal at a lovely Italian restaurant we'd been to before on our previous weekend here.
• A short walk with a couple of Dani's friends on Saturday morning.
• Setting up the house for the party with streamers and balloons.
• Playing tennis with glasses of Pims in the afternoon (great fun.)
• Having a big laugh putting on my costume with a mullet and skin tight leopard pants.
• Everyone arriving for the party - a lovely group of people as you'd expect being Dani's friends.
• Seeing everyone's costumes; lots of great ones. 
• Barbecuing for the whole group.  I've never cooked so much meat in one go before, challenging with all the different varieties with different cook times!
• The party itself, lots of fun with lots of 80's music.  I had a long stint at being the DJ.
• Dani's great cake that her best friend an made her - a rubik's cube!
• Helping to clear up the next day. Many hands made light work.
• A nice walk on the Sunday with some of Dani's friends.

Kaplan Murder Mystery

All the Kaplan staff had a tremendously fun time last night acting out a murder mystery during a delicious three course dinner.  We all had to come in costume as our character.  The setting was a train in France in 1940.  I played the part of a posh, well travelled business person who is at home in the best restaurants and hotels who is actually a British double agent.  Then there was a duke and a princess, a journalist and a novelist, a gangster and an RAF pilot and various other juicy characters.  Needless to say, we all acted with gusto and really got into our roles.  There was a lot of laughter and joviality, helped by copious amounts of free wine.  What a fun evening!