Vivid memories

It must be very nice to turn 80 and have your children organize a garden party with friends and neighbours and  one distant relative. Yes, that distant relative was hubby who is  a second cousin to M on his father's side. The last time we saw M was at her husbands funeral so it was nice to see her at a happier occasion.   It was a very nice BBQ with lots of food and with cake later on and a few nice speeches. It has ben raining quite a lot here in Sydney the last few days but yesterday was beautiful.

The family

Yours truly together with R, the birthday girl's daughter

Friday night after hubby finished work we took the train into Sydney to see  Vivid Sydney which took place in the central parts of Sydney near the Opera house and the Bridge. It rained off and on but thanks to our big IKEA umbrella we didn't suffer too much. Instead we had complete strangers come and stand under it with us to protect their cameras. It's always nice to be popular!





Other than that I have also had my usual painting class and also a special workshop which was very nice. I am trying to do as much as possible before we go to Europe. I intend to bring a few paintings and they need to dry. It takes forever. The framing guy is coming today to deliver two paintings but the rest I have to take with me un- framed.

One of my latest efforts

I can't believe that we are going so soon but looking forward to seeing friends and family of course!!Today is Sunday, yes, I know I said I was going to make Monday my blog day but tomorrow will be busy since I am doing 2 art classes per week until we go next week to make up the time.