Christmas Cocktail Party

This year we had a Christmas Cocktail Party at Sue's house in Yarralumla.  We all thought she was very brave to host a party of 100 people.

The theme was "black and salmon" in honour of the famous galloper Black Caviar (those are his colours).  It was great to see the number of people who rose to the challenge of finding something in salmon.  The smart ones headed straight for the Black Caviar website to order merchandise. Some claimed to be wearing salmon-coloured underwear but I wasn't about to try and confirm it.

Attendees were greeted at the gate by a welcoming line of men that ended in a bar and an aperitif.  From there we were directed the back of the house where we could enjoy the last of the sun and chat with others to the music of a live band.  The weather was absolutely perfect (for a change).

After the sun went down and we'd been plied with drinks and yummy finger food by the waiters, we went into the house to see Cilla Black who turned up to sing a few numbers.  Even Santa turned up to help with the singing.  (PS.  It really wasn't Cilla, but Catherine put on a great performance).  One of the highlights of the show was Lyn who decided to dance to the song "You're my world" holding a globe of the world that she accidentally destroyed when the lyrics got to the part about " .. your the end of my world.."   I hope Sue gets another globe for Christmas.

Following the show we sat down for some pasta with a bolognese sauce.  I'm sure that some of those that partook heavily of the finger food turned green at the thought of eating more, but most of us valiantly battled on and managed a bowl of two.

After dinner, the crowd progressively reduced until we left about midnight.  I sure hope Sue didn't have to do too much cleaning up the next day.





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Cooma Cup

We had great trip to the Cooma Cup this year.  The weather was great, and we seemed to be in Cooma in no time at all.   We had to stop there so that the girls to all rush off to check out the shoe shops or something.  So after a 30 minute sojourn we headed off for the 10 minute trip to the racecourse, where we were allowed to sneak in a back entrance.   I wouldn't have minded a bit of a walk to the main entrance, but I didn't realise at the time that some of the women's shoes were so stylish as to make it painful to walk over 20 metres.

We had a nice lunch in one of the large marquees, and we could pop out regularly to watch the races and the Fashions in the Field competitions.  The standard of elegance certainly put Canberra to shame compared to what we saw there last week.

After the races, we drove back to Breadbo for a great barbeque dinner before getting home around 9pm.

Here is a selection of photos from the day.  For those using an iPad, you'll have to use this link instead. Just click on the "Slideshow" button near the top left hand side of the page.  There seems to be a problem with the Google-generated slideshow at the moment, so if you have any problems, just use the above link.





One problem in taking people's photos is that often I don't know or can't remember someone's name to add to the photo caption.  I generally forget people's names about 15 seconds after being introduced.  So Karyn had the idea that I should take photos of everyone and she could write down their names.  Sounds good, eh?    Here's part of the name list that I found the next day.

 Next time we should do this at the start of the trip and not the end, or maybe before the margaritas rather than after.

Christmas Cocktail Party

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