Half Way There

Hey, it’s my birthday…Not too excited about turning another year older, but it’s always nice to celebrate a birthday. I’m just not looking forward to next year’s big three oh. I was going to pick up a cake for the team before work, but Coles was not opened yet. Kevin and Ryan went out around lunch time and picked me up a caramel cake and tam tam’s. They were delicious! The whole team sang happy birthday to me, aaaaw.

After work, we went back to the PI and dropped our stuff off. Neil changed into his clown suit (his colorful Warhol ODB jacket) and we headed out to St. Kilda with Mary Beth to Uber for an art opening. We were invited by the “gallerina” when we did our gallery hopping last weekend. I think Neil has a crush on her. Not only is she pretty, she’s super nice. She talked to him for a while at the gallery. He’s hoping that she makes it to his art show on Friday. Neil has been networking and a bar invited him to perform his dance and display his art work this Friday. I’m sure it’ll be very interesting.

Kevin and Donna met us at the gallery around 7pm. I really like Kevin’s wife. She’s always so nice to everyone and she helped me with my camera settings. She even baked me a cake, but I didn’t get the chance to see it, haha.

The ceramic kangaroos and paintings were pretty good. The curator gave a little speech about the artist and his art. The artist was there, but he didn’t say much. There were plenty of champagne and snacks at the gallery. I started off with 2 glasses and was going to stop there, but the champagne people kept insisted I have another. Four glasses later and we were all hungry for real food. Well, I wasn’t very hungry anymore since I filled up on cheese and crackers. We walked over to a place called Felix and grabbed some grub. I ordered spring rolls which turned out to be pretty nasty. Neil had a little too much to drink and wanted to catch the cab home instead of taking the tram. How can I refuse a cab ride? Donna and Kevin lived nearby, so they walked home.