Happy Birthday Anne

The major reason for family van der Wielen to be in Tasmania is little Anne’s 1st birthday. After all she is the first descendant in the family. After singing for her, the little girl tried to put out the candle with her fingers and she had played a while with the cake, we also did get our piece of cake. And because you can imagine how clean she was after playing with her cake, you can imagine she needed a bath before unwrapping her gifts. Dad and aunt Mirjan helped Anne with the wrappings which she seemed to find more interesting than the gifts itself.

When Anne was brought to bed for her noon nap, we finished the last bit of packing that we started yesterday for the removal of tomorrow. And after that? On our way to Tolosa Park where we would celebrate Anne’s birthday by having a BBQ together with friends. The great thing about the parks and picnic area’s is that they all contain a free of charge BBQ facility, most of it being a gas one and an occasional wood BBQ. When I booked a hut at the park I booked one with a gas BBQ as these are the only ones you are allowed to use when there is a fire ban. Luckily this wasn’t the case today and after we looked around and found another hut with more grass land around it where we installed ourselves and did lit the BBQ.

In the time between the BBQ would be ready to use and Anne and her guests would arrive I walked around a bit looking out for Cockatoo’s who were sitting in the trees around the park. I never knew these parrot like birds were so big. Just after arriving back at the hut, Anne and her mum and grandmother arrived, shortly followed by the various guests. Besides eating the food we also played a bit of cricket as well as a bit football before it got time to get back home again. And Anne? She enjoyed the attention she received!