Thing-I - May 24th

Hartelijk gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag Thing-I

I met Thing-I at my first children's Sinterklaas party at work - we were both dressed as Zwarte Pieten. Click here to see my posting about the Sinterklaas traditions, in case you need an explanation. We arrived at the ungodly hour of 7AM ... ON A SUNDAY, to start the preparations for our make-up and costumes.

Recently, Thing-I and I spent a fun-packed weekend in London in celebration of Randip's upcoming wedding - a good old-fashioned Hen Weekend with shopping, delicious food, dancing and more. Thing-I has a gentle, caring and nurturing nature ... when we were all a bit scatterbrained (a side effect of sleep deprivation), she would come to our rescue with her fresh attitude and BRILLIANT ideas.

Since your birthday is on Wednesday, that entitles you to the right to celebrate it for 2 weekends (before and after) ... and in between. Wishing you an excellent birthday!!!

Floris - May 19th

Happy birthday Floris - what a night out!! Floris celebrated his birthday last Friday at Bar CA in Amsterdam with many of his friends and colleagues, including BUBBLES. It was an excellent evening, with lots of laughs and I have the pictures to prove it. Just go to Bubbles and Friends in a few weeks and you will see our collection of friends and get a taste of the atmosphere - some pretty unusual shots. Floris is always up for a good party, a night out with friends, a game of pool, biertjes on a patio, diving and pretty much anything. He has friends (hmm) in all major ports of call (sorry that is officer talk from my old days) - he literally knows people all over the globe.

Floris, I just wanna share some advise -> BINNEN DE RING" ... "BINNEN DE RING" !!

Rowena - May 10th

Happy belated birthday Rowena!

We would like to send you birthday hugs from around the world. Unfortunately, I do not have any digital photos (will try to find a photo in my memory chest for scanning). I hope that you had a FABULOUS celebration with your family and friends. Wishing I could have been there with you - enjoy & chat soon : ) !

Darren - May 3rd

All the best wishes for an excellent birthday!!!

Well Darren, first I will start off by saying that I am SURE you will have a fabulous birthday. Secondly, I will offer my "world-famous" advise - don't do anything that I WOULDN'T do!!! No worries about the restrictions associated with such advise because it basically translates to ... JUST GO FOR IT cuz there is absolutely nothing that I WON'T try ... at least ONCE.

Darren & I share a special bond - we are both Toronto Maple Leaf fans - we are rare bunch and ... at the moment a very, VERY unhappy bunch. I read online that Toronto has packed it in for this year's season - what a damn shame (not my first choice of words but I gotta keep myself under control in this forum).

The weekend is coming, along with the opportunity to celebrate your birthday... so you have enough recovery time!

Luc - Apr 22nd

Happy belated birthday to Luc!

Shame ... double shame on me for missing this announcement. During the busy month of April with Easter, my 10 day vacation and updating my blog with pictures from my recent trip to Canada, I completely forgot to post a birthday wish for my dear brother. I think I must be forgiven though, given the fact that I have an entire posting dedicated to the SURPRISE birthday party that I attended, in honour of Luc's birthday. It certainly was cleaver of Julie to plan your party 2 weeks in advance which was guaranteed to eliminate ANY, if not ALL suspicion of a surprise. Read all about it here - it was a blast!

I hope that your birthday weekend was great & you had another celebration that was memorable!!! Wish I could have been there - drinking Canadian beer and kicking your butt in pool (as if I would have any hope in winning against you).