I was right... and bonus cake pics!

Well, I was right. The spotting continued on Friday and by Saturday morning af was well and truly here. I had a busy day on Friday, lots of errands and then making  my sister in laws birthday cake. I'm pretty close to her, she's my brother's girlfriend and they've been together for over 13 years now.

I had to do a few more errands on Saturday, I needed to pick up some balloons and fill up the car. It has been so hot for mid March and the air conditioning in our car stopped working last week. Crazy traffic due to all the roadworks, 27°C day with something like 80% humidity and  no air conditioning. It was not pretty. (And today's weather isn't much better! Come on, give me some nice cool Autumn days already. It shouldn't be swimming weather in mid March, but really contemplating either a trip to the beach or going downstairs for a swim this afternoon.)

I was so glad that our family get together was a dinner and not lunch. I was just too frazzled and would never have been ready in time to drive to Brisbane and be ready for a lunch.

I had problems with the cake decorations, the humidity was making the fondant sweat and melt so I had to make them again. They did turn out so much cuter the second time around, but still. It was annoying to have to redo it!

Chocolate cake and ganache and caramel filling.
 Cherry tree and sweet little owl made from fondant
 with luster dust to colour the flowers. 

Then once we got up into Brisbane, the carpark was full. And there was a football game on nearby so all the on street parking near the restaurant was a 15min zone. I circled the block for 30 mins and in the end gave up and risked a parking ticket by parking in a narrow side street. After all that, once we finally got to the restaurant I needed a drink. I felt so bad, getting there late and flustered and the first thing my gorgeous sister in law did was order me a drink. It was her birthday, I should've been ordering one for her! But that strawberry daiquiri was the best one I've had in years (And the first alcoholic drink I've had in about six months) My sister in law and I ended up splitting a bottle of champagne too.

Dinner was ok, I'm not a huge seafood fan and it's a mostly seafood restaurant, but everyone else in my family loves it. Afterwards we went back to my brother and sister in laws house where we gave her the cake and her gift. I know she wants an ipad and had been saving gift cards for it, so we'd given her a gift card. But I didn't want to just shove it in a card (like what I did at Christmas), so I saw an idea on pinterest where you put the card inside a balloon. It was actually quite easy to get the card in the balloon and then I just put together a small balloon bouquet.

One of these balloons is hiding a gift card!

It was really a good night, I needed to just let down my hair and enjoy the meal without worrying about what I was eating and drinking. It was also a great distraction from af arriving. After we left the restaurant I asked my husband if I'd made a fool of myself, he patted me on the arm and said "no, not yet. You're just happy and very talkative"

It's my birthday next in 10 days time. But my family will visit sometime after Easter and we'll do the big family celebration then. I'm just going to have a small birthday with my husband this year. He's managed to get two days off work as annual leave which is great!