Last night Iz and I finally turned in to bed at 1.30am and then began my mammoth ballon inflation session. 50 ballons and a good three quarters of an hour later I'd blown them all up and then I just had to set out the house for the morning. Banners and a plethora of Winnie the Pooh birthday goodies were laid out and I finally went to bed at 3am.
Got up at half 8 for the first part of our surprise day we'd got installed. Iz got up at 9 and was amazed by the house. birthday horns were blown and she opened her mum and dad's present followed by us telling her we'd bought her a surf lesson which started at 10 at the next beach down the road. So we hastily got changed (I'd decided to tag along for the lesson) into our wetsuits and jumped in the car. Em had just got off nights and was going to laze on the beach taking piccies of us while we had fun.
Shane was our instructor, a former pro world tour surfer. He was a good laugh and a great teacher and got me standing on my first wave and Iz on about her second or third. We stayed out there for 2 hours (he gave us some extra time as it was her birthday) and caught loads of waves ... as well as being dumped by just as many, but hey - that's half the fun isn't it?!
We headed back to the flat after the lesson and Iz opened our presents and then we headed out to the Crown Plaza hotel for some lunch followed by an ice cream on the beach. I forgot to say that it was dead sunny and warm today (a good 21 degrees).
We then took Iz to part 2 of her surprise - an hour long massage at an aromatheraphy/reiki/sports therapy massage parlour. She loved it which was cool as she'd never had one before.
When she got back we then cut the cake - a chocolate marble cake which she normally has for her birthday - her ma's recipe - accompanied with Tasmanian Jansz champagne.
Just about to go out for food now, so will write more later!
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