Birthday Gal!

Last Thursday was Ele's 30th!

I took the day off work as a suprise for her and I got her a nice watch (a benefit of a January birthday is there are good bargains in the sales!).

In the evening, her parents, Saff & Anise and Caroline came over for an Indian takeaway feast, and then my parents came over later as well.

Chris made her a HUGE triple-layer chocolate cake which was very nice indeed.

Her main present from most people was money, and we are going to go away just the two of us for a weekend somewhere nice.

This Sunday we are all (incl. both sets of parents and my brother and sister as well) off to a place called Coombe Lodge for a nice lunch as her "official" birthday dinner.

Then we'll have to decide where to go for our weekend away. Can't wait for that.

We bought a new camera as well - a Canon EOS 400d. It's very nice indeed and gets far better shots than our old one. It's much more responsive as well when using it. They are quite popular at the moment, so I had to call lots of stores to try and find one. When I did I wanted to do it on the buy-now-pay-next-year deal, so I carefully found some bank statements and utility bills, got Joe in the car and drove to Epsom (Ele was off taking Saff & Anise for a photoshoot for Anise). Joe fell asleep in the car, so I carefully got him out and put him in the pushchair, got as far as the lifts and realised I had left the stuff behind. So I had to put him back in the car, drive home, get the bank statements etc from where I'd left them, and drive back to Epsom again. Very annoying...