Sunday, 18 March, 2018

Happy Birthday to me! 🎂  I thought that I would feel down turning 60 since it sounds so old, but I was fine today - I don't feel old, so I think that age really is just a number.  My cousin, Rosie, told me that 60 is the old 40 - I like that! 😁

Our week was very busy.  Dad's course continues to go well with the guys all passing the exam this week.  I was kept really busy going to my exercise classes.  I also joined the knitting group which meets at the library every second Tuesday.  They weren't particularly friendly - I was disappointed about that - I will give them one more chance in two weeks - if things aren't better, I will give the final week here a miss.  Thankfully, my knitting group on Friday is much more friendly and welcoming.  I also met with a young female personal trainer at the gym (part of my gym membership) who created a muscle strengthening routine for me which I can do wherever I am.  It only requires some small dumbbells and a resistance band.  She modelled the moves for me and then she observed me doing the moves and gave me feedback to ensure that I was doing things correctly. 

On Thursday, I met up with my friend, Thea, to celebrate my birthday.  We went out to a Mexican restaurant for lunch and then to a cute little cafe where we had a drink (an iced chocolate for me, of course 😃) and we shared a mint chocolate slice which was yummy! 

My iced chocolate and the mint slice

Thea with her mint milkshake

That evening, Dad and I went out to celebrate my birthday at Hogsbreath Cafe - a chain of steakhouses here in Australia.  They give you a free main meal on your birthday and the food is pretty good.  Dad and I both chose the prime rib / port ribs dinner.  The prime rib was okay, but the ribs were so yummy.  When we got home, we had mudcake (like chocolate cake, only better) with premium vanilla ice-cream. 

Our non-alcoholic drinks to celebrate my birthday - mine is the one with the whipped cream 

Dad and me with our prime rib / pork rib (birthday) dinners

Me with my mudcake and ice-cream birthday dessert - so yummy!

Yesterday, Dad and I went geocaching again - we really love being in the outdoors and it was a perfect day to be outside  - not too sunny or too hot with a nice breeze blowing.  We looked for 15 geocaches and we were successful in 13/15 (one of the two we couldn't find was actually missing) - not too bad, eh? 

This was one of our favourite geocaches - you will have to make the picture bigger to see it, but there is a green medicine bottle attached to the end of a branch which is leaning against the tree - the medicine bottle is up in the air - what a great hide right out in plain sight

 Dad standing behind a swan statue in one of the parks we found a geocache in

 To get to one of the geocaches, we had to climb down a gully, walk across some rocks in a stream and then climb up a steep hill to find the treasure

The treasure was found in the midst of these rocks

 This geocache was another great hide - the top piece of bark is actually not part of the tree - underneath this piece of bark is where the geocache was hidden in the hollow of a log