A birthday celebration

Last Saturday our middle grand daughter turned 18.

Lovely Caitlin

She decided to go out for an evening meal 

and invited all the family - children excluded.

When she turned 16 she didn't want any 'old' people there

and all the kids got to go. :)

I laughed and told her mother that she would 

either have a very big 21st (which is the coming of age party) 

or a very small one.

Anyway we all duly arrived at the restaurant

 to discover tables being moved and rearranged. 

They had set us up at four different tables if you please.

entrance to restaurant

Eventually we were all seated at two tables, 

'old' poeple at one and younger people at the other.

That was a lot better than 4 tables and we were

 all close enough to interact with each other.

Her older brother and his partner travelled down from Christchurch 

 - and brought the cake with them, arriving after everyone had eaten. 

He had been up until four in the morning making and decorating it,

with an emergency trip to A&E to get his thumb stitched up.

sweet 18

The cake looked even better in person, so to speak, than it does in the photo.

It was beautiful and delicious to boot. Vanilla cake filled with mock cream.

This is what he is training to do, and his other sister is inclined this way as well. 

I'm trying to encourage her to do a course in cake decorating.

Eventually we all headed home after a lovely night out. 

Grand daughter had not been really well and 

whereas she had been hoping to go out for the rest of the evening

 with her fiends she just headed home and went to bed.

She said she had a good night out though, so that's the main thing.

joining in with;

roses of inspiration

And that's it this week. 

Keep well until next time,

Diana