HAPPY 30th CLIVEY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my Hubby who turned the big 30 today!
Those of you in the know would have known that I had planned a SURPRISE 30th for Clive and boy was he SURPRISED! A huge thank you for all of you who kept the surprise and for those who helped set up a.k.a. Sian Kelly, Catherine and Veronica and of course Heather who helped make the party possible.

Well we all dressed up 70's and 80's style as these were the years that Clive grew up in, and everyone went through so much trouble to dress up and what was really nice was that everyone did! You know you always get some spoilsports who dont like to dress up well obviously this crowd was the exception to the rule.

Lets see we had an Elvis, loads of Hippies, Disco Queens, Afros, Rasta's, lead singer from Kiss, Madonna, Don Johnson - Miami Vice, Austin Powers and so the list goes on.

We had the whole day planned out, Clive went to play golf in Darling on Saturday morning early with Shaun (his ex-boss and family friend) and he left the house at about 10:30 for golf to start at 12pm, they kept him busy in Darling having drinks playing poker etc, whilst we all raced around to get the hall finished, pick up all the things that needed to be picked up and pull the whole thing together. Sian, Catherine and Kelly were in charge of draping, Veronica and I decor and Heather the Food Co-Ordinator. Well phew come the start of the party I was actually finished but it passed quickly once all the shriek of laughters started filtering in with the arrival of all the dressed up friends. If we had a prize for the evening I would have to say Elvis (Ford) and Kiss Lead Singer (Dan) would have won - as they looked brilliant!

Part of the "Plan" was that Shaun who is the chairman of the Melkbos angling club (where we held the party) had to "drop of petty cash there" on the way back for a dinner "we were all going to" for another "function" - hope you can make head or tale of all my inverted commas. Clive walks in with his fake bank bag and everyone shouts SURPRISE and he goes "no its not me" thinking that he has spoilt someone elses party he still didnt click as we were all in costume so he didnt recognise anyone - Hilarious!! Eventually he clicked and put his hands over his face and walked back outside... which he doesnt remember I think he was in a bit of shock. After some tears and greeting everyone we got down to some partying. A great time was had by all and the evening was a HUGE SUCCESS. Clive wont forget his 30th for a long time I am sure. Me on the other hand is pooped... Keeping a secret is hard work, never mind everything else that went into planning, but it was all worth it.

Here are some pictures of the evening, there are so many so I am going to just put up a few:

70's and 80's Jol

"Surprise"