HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY TO HAMISH (for yesterday!)
Yesterday we celebrated Hamish's 21st birthday. It started in an eventful way too. We decided to have a small get-together at our cousins' house as ours was too small, and so as soon as music lessons were finished in the morning I went with my dad over to their place to drop off some food and then try to cover these three boards with photos. That took a lot longer than I thought it would! We had heaps of photos and ended up spending more than a couple hours choosing which photos to put up.
Finally when it was all done, my dad and I were about to leave, only to discover that there was a bit of a car crash at the bottom of our cousins' extremely steep driveway. This car with my aunty's friends had stopped to turn into the driveway, but the guy in the car behind bent down to pick something up and didn't see that the car in front had stopped. He then rammed into the car and smashed up his bonnet. His car just happened to stop right at the front of the driveway of my aunty's house! The police had come along as well as an ambulance to deal with a passenger in the front car who had suffered from whiplash. She had to be taken away to hospital for some minor injuries. The guy in the car behind was a nice guy but he hadn't renewed the registration of his car and didn't have car insurance! What's more is that it was his girlfriend's birthday that day and they had just been returning from some birthday shopping!
The car was soon moved and we were able to get out and return home. When we got home Aonghas was putting the finishing touches to our tribute video to Hamish, entitled 'Hamish Anderson: 21 Years in 210 Seconds'. My mum was doing the cooking and I was...
Anyway it was bordering on 6pm when the party was supposed to be starting so we quickly got to our cousins' house. The first guest to arrive was Chen, followed by our music teacher Mrs Green. Then along came Mr and Mrs See, Mrs Simpson our old neighbour and the other Andersons. We were all hanging around talking before it was time for dinner. There was salad, sausages, meat and other stuff. We had dinner and then it was time for Hamish to blow the candles! Uncle Peter brought over the cake for the second time after the candles went out the first time. We all sang Happy Birthday and then Hamish blew out all the candles with one blow! Hamish pulled out a piece of paper with some words he had typed up, but in the end didn't bother reading them but instead gave a bit of a thank-you speech to everyone which I thought was good of him and I'm sure he was sincere. Sometimes it's hard to tell with Hamish! He started cutting the cake into eighth's and took a huge slice which was really funny! No one said anything as it was his birthday! Dessert was stomach-filling, as there was chocolate cake, pavlova, truffle, ice-cream and jelly!
It was then time to settle down and watch some riveting netball - the World Championship Grand Finals! Yeah only to see New Zealand lose yet another World Cup! That wasn't entirely unexpected...
One funny thing was that our Uncle David asked Hamish if he liked the mug. Hamish then looked at him with a confused look. Our uncle then looked over at the presents to see it hadn't been unwrapped yet! Good one Uncle David!!
Megan, one of Hamish's childhood friends soon came over and we had a bit of a catch-up as we haven't done so in such a long time.
After the loss sank in, we decided to watch the video Aonghas and I had come up with. We'll put it up on YouTube soon! By now it was about 10pm, which was hard to believe! Time flew by pretty quickly but hopefully Hamish had a great time and felt and saw how much the people around him love and care about him! All the best for the next 21 years Mr Seamus Hamish Campbell Bobeyes Aonghas Tian-En Anderson!
Finally when it was all done, my dad and I were about to leave, only to discover that there was a bit of a car crash at the bottom of our cousins' extremely steep driveway. This car with my aunty's friends had stopped to turn into the driveway, but the guy in the car behind bent down to pick something up and didn't see that the car in front had stopped. He then rammed into the car and smashed up his bonnet. His car just happened to stop right at the front of the driveway of my aunty's house! The police had come along as well as an ambulance to deal with a passenger in the front car who had suffered from whiplash. She had to be taken away to hospital for some minor injuries. The guy in the car behind was a nice guy but he hadn't renewed the registration of his car and didn't have car insurance! What's more is that it was his girlfriend's birthday that day and they had just been returning from some birthday shopping!
The car was soon moved and we were able to get out and return home. When we got home Aonghas was putting the finishing touches to our tribute video to Hamish, entitled 'Hamish Anderson: 21 Years in 210 Seconds'. My mum was doing the cooking and I was...
Anyway it was bordering on 6pm when the party was supposed to be starting so we quickly got to our cousins' house. The first guest to arrive was Chen, followed by our music teacher Mrs Green. Then along came Mr and Mrs See, Mrs Simpson our old neighbour and the other Andersons. We were all hanging around talking before it was time for dinner. There was salad, sausages, meat and other stuff. We had dinner and then it was time for Hamish to blow the candles! Uncle Peter brought over the cake for the second time after the candles went out the first time. We all sang Happy Birthday and then Hamish blew out all the candles with one blow! Hamish pulled out a piece of paper with some words he had typed up, but in the end didn't bother reading them but instead gave a bit of a thank-you speech to everyone which I thought was good of him and I'm sure he was sincere. Sometimes it's hard to tell with Hamish! He started cutting the cake into eighth's and took a huge slice which was really funny! No one said anything as it was his birthday! Dessert was stomach-filling, as there was chocolate cake, pavlova, truffle, ice-cream and jelly!
It was then time to settle down and watch some riveting netball - the World Championship Grand Finals! Yeah only to see New Zealand lose yet another World Cup! That wasn't entirely unexpected...
One funny thing was that our Uncle David asked Hamish if he liked the mug. Hamish then looked at him with a confused look. Our uncle then looked over at the presents to see it hadn't been unwrapped yet! Good one Uncle David!!
Megan, one of Hamish's childhood friends soon came over and we had a bit of a catch-up as we haven't done so in such a long time.
After the loss sank in, we decided to watch the video Aonghas and I had come up with. We'll put it up on YouTube soon! By now it was about 10pm, which was hard to believe! Time flew by pretty quickly but hopefully Hamish had a great time and felt and saw how much the people around him love and care about him! All the best for the next 21 years Mr Seamus Hamish Campbell Bobeyes Aonghas Tian-En Anderson!
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