11.11pm, Chatting to the Aus girls (Sha, Bree, Jess). It was my third social occasion of the evening, all from my computer, haha. Before a chat with them, I had a Friday night 'pub' hangout with my home friends, and it was so fun. We started off in Houseparty but it was too confusing, and like the virtual equivalent of us going to a bar, it being too noisy, people doing shots around us and us comparing we can't hear ourselves think, so we left and went to Zoom, which was like a much quieter nicer bar with a cold glass of Pinot Grigio. We had a great catch-up and lots of wines.
However, the really lovely and exciting part of the day, was my amazing dad's 70th birthday! We'd had a weekend away with all of us and a party planned, but obviously none of that could go ahead. I snuck around early this morning and hung up some banners and badges, so when Dad opened the curtain he would see all the Happy Birthday signs. Then after work, Andy and I went round and stood in their huge garden (as did the Pyrahs, in another section of the huge garden) and we sung Happy Birthday to him and had a beer from a distance, and watched him eat cake. So surreal, but actually lovely. Then we went home, got our party dresses on, and all joined in a Zoom call to have a party with Dad, where he opened his pressies, we sung and danced and celebrated our amazing dad. He's ace.
Today was a real celebration day, but so different to how it would have looked even a month ago. My poor dad not getting the 70th celebration he deserves, but I cannot WAIT until we can make up for that, hopefully before too long.
