Holiday

Well, the airfares are booked and the wife and I are going to Thailand next year! It's kind of our long delayed honeymoon. The kids will be staying with the grandparents while we go shopping and lay around on beaches. It's been a long time since my wife or I have been on a proper holiday, so to say we are looking forward to it is an understatement.

Private Eye

I went to see a Melbourne Fringe Festival show earlier this week called Private Eye. Essentially it was a magic show with a old time gangster theme story to it. The story was pretty corny and the interspersion of magic in it made it occasionally hard to follow exactly what the characters were trying to do. This is not a good thing particularly when the story was pretty simple. Still the ability to combine magic with a story line is not an easy thing to do, so in that regard it was quite passable.

As for the magic itself, there was a lot of sleight of hand and most was done very well. Cigarettes appeared and disappeared, coins appeared and disappeared....come to think of most of the tricks involved that premise.

The best part of it was when one performer called Al Cappuccino did a routine with cards and cigarette that was clearly a routine that was far more polished than anything else in the show.

Overall I actually quite enjoyed it, but have to say that my main gripe was that the show was billed as 45 minutes, but it barely went for 30. I've paid about $15 before to go and see 100 million dollar plus movies that provide entertainment for 2 hours, so when I pay the same price to see something that only goes for 30 minutes it had better be as good as it can be. Sadly this wasn't. I'd give it a 6 out of 10.

My baby's birthday.

My daughter has just turned 2! She had a birthday party of course, where about 15 of her little friends came around and mashed cake into our carpet and spilled juice on the floor.

The highlight of the day was when we turned on the bubble machine and the kids were amazed to see bubbles flying all over the lounge room. We quickly realized that the bubble mixture on the wooden floorboards made them pretty slippery and there were kids going arse over turkey everywhere (no one was hurt and we put down towels after that). Thankfully at this age kids (and their parents) get tired pretty quickly, so we were only subjected to the horror of a kids birthday party for a few hours.

We gave our daughter a slide and she got two annoying talking Elmo things as well as lots of duplo lego stuff that I look forward to tripping on at some stage in the future.