Anniversary Lunch, Birthday Dinner

We are going to a get together tomorrow to see Samantha, which is the same day as my Mum and Dad's wedding anniversary.We went to the Pines today to celebrate the anniversary instead of going tomorrow. The food was nice as always. The thing I didn't like was that we were seated next to a table with little kids. Joy. I didn't really eat that much for a buffet place. I usually just get one plate of food then some dessert.

When we came back home, Babcia, Dziazdio and Uncle Tim came over to give Stephen his birthday present, even though his birthday is on the 28th. He got some money, a photo album and some photos from his Confirmation two years ago (they forgot that they had the photos). We talked and had tea and coffee. We also showed them the Nintendo Wii. Dziadzio and I walked outside and looked around the backyard. They also ended up staying for a pizza dinner.

Dad bought Mum a bunch of roses yesterday. They had glitter on them.

Aren't they gorgeous!

Peace.

A New Hobby, A New Read & A Horrible Restaurant

I have a new hobby now: origami. I used to do origami quite a bit when I was younger, but I have been looking on the Internet for some videos and copying them from there. I have mostly been making flowers, such as a lotus, but I tried to make an orchid but it didn't work. I have just been using computer paper to make them, which it too thick so I need to go find some proper origami paper to make it work better.

My graduation present was to choose any restaurant I wanted to go to for dinner. I chose to go to Muscats , a buffet at The Vines because I have been there was breakfast before and it was really good. Dinner was not. There was not a very large selection of foods for dinner and the hot meals were hard to get to because it had a very heavy cover on them and you could put it down anywhere or put your plate down to put food onto it. We had to go up in pairs so one of us could hold onto the cover while the other dished the food into their plate. The most disgusting thing was the flies. They were everywhere and going onto food. When my brother and I went up for dessert, there was a fly stuck on the cheesecake. It wasn't like this restaurant was cheap and it had very good service, such as the waiter pulling out the chairs for us to sit down and putting the napkins onto our laps. They just need something to cover the food from flies.

While we were driving to The Vines, I started reading a book that Dad bought from work called Dateline. It is basically an encyclopedia of events that happened on each day of the year. I was reading the chapter of the book about the origins of calendars. It is so interesting, because there are so many different calendars out there for the different religions and groups in the world, ruled by the moon or the sun. They have been changed so many times over such a long period of time, but much of it is very similar to the Gregorian calendar the majority of the world uses today.

Signing off.