Rob and i arrived on a Thursday with the intention to stay at my cousins for one night and we left on a Monday.
Rob and my cousin Gavin get along like two peas in a pod.
They have many hobbies and interests in common.
They both use to race go karts – they bought their go kart off the same person.
They both have there piolet licence – they were trained by the same instructor at the same school.
They both love wake boarding and jet skiing.
They both play golf.
They both work in oil and gas doing fly in, fly out work(besides the fact Robs off at the moment)
They are both children at heart.
They get along fantastically and have the same sence of humour which is great.
We went and had some catch ups with an aunty and uncle and a couple of cousins and their children. Gavin and his wife Kate have just built an amazing house and the attention to detail is something to admire and learn from.
We went to a family members 1st birthday on the Saturday. What a good idea having a kids party at a park, we have been to a couple now. You can see them playing, you get to use all the picnic facilities and the best thing is everyone puts there rubbish in the bin and you go home to a nice clean house!! Perfect!
There were lollies in barbie cars ready to be consumed and a large Macedonian feast. There had been a lot of effort made for the food and salads and they were delicious. There was a lot of meat that the boys loved.
Funnily though there was a big cooked pigs head in the middle of the table with an apple in its mouth. I didn’t really think anything of it and i don’t eat most meats. I think i must have seen a few too many heads whilst travelling for it to concern me. It did concern a few people as it was a first birthday and there are kids around. As we were informed in Macedonia the pigs head is a kids version, an adults version of a feast would have the pig running around earlier in the day.
Now im not saying that i would want a pigs head on my kids first birthday but thats the Mascedonian tradition and the child is Mascedonian so good on them. Its nice to be surrounded by different cultures. I think too many people like to live purposely ignorant when it comes to eating animals because if they know what happens behind the scenes or acknowledge it then they might not eat meat. Thats not something a lot of people want to do, especially in 3 veg, 1 meat aussie house holds. How boring would that be!
Anyways after the party, later that night we had a few drinks and hit the Soul Bar. What a night! We watched an amazing band called the Floating Bridges. Very entertaining!! My cousin Gavin is there number 1 groupie. So much so that when he introduced himself for the first time they recognised his name from how often he comments and likes there stuff on facebook.
We danced all night and got Maccas on the way home,like you do.
Over the next few days we went for rides through the Glass House Mountains and up to Montville which was really pretty. The town has such a quirky feel about it, reminding me of a smaller version of Mount Tamborine.
We then went to Gardners Falls which was like a large watering hole. There was three sets of bike handlebars tied up to surrounding trees with rope ready for swinging. The boys had a swing off the largest rope, it was really high. Gavin did a bomb when he let go and ended up with a big black bruise at the top of his leg. Haha worth it.
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