Great times

We've done nothing much else but celebrate and socialise over the past three days (and nights). We kicked off on Friday night with a wonderful meal with friends at the Lanterne Rooms restaurant at Campbell. These women are my amazing work colleagues and we call ourselves the RED group (Retired, Extremely Dangerous - just like Helen Mirren in RED). So no prizes for guessing how we would decorate our Lanterne Room for this party. Then it was time for my yearly birthday (theirs) treat with Sophie and Maddie: afternoon tea at the utterly lovely Hyatt Hotel Tea Lounge. This is something I really look forward to doing each year, and luckily the girls seem to enjoy it too so far.

Then last night we saw our third French film in just over a week: De Vrais Mensonges (Beautiful Lies) a great showcase for the gorgeous Audrey Tautou and another sell out show for Greater Union, Manuka during the 2011 Alliance Francaise Film Festival. I enjoyed the very stylish French ads for Tefal and Peugeot in the opening film for the festival - but I am starting to grow weary of them now, although that dangerous looking man with the grey stubble in the Peugeot ad is always worth a second (third, fourth) look.

Today we met up with extended family for a yum cha lunch at Noble Palace. There's 12 of us altogether so it takes quite a few steamed dumplings before everyone is satisfied - especially those growing, active boys. (I mean the young ones, not the grandpas in the picture below.) Life has got very hectic for everybody now so we are lucky to find opportunities like this for precious catching up (and delicious eating) time.