Birthday surprises

Today was a special day, at least it was a special day for Catie. It's Catie's birthday today!  And right after breakfast can you guess what she did?  Can you guess what she did!...... She opened presents.

 She got a brush, a key chain, a baby rabbit figurine, chocolate, and...... a camera!  I was pretty jealous of the camera, because this camera was super cool. it's big, I'm guesssing it was expensive, it's yellow, it has a bunch of different settings, it prints the pictures after you take them, it is a polaroid camera and cate only lets certain people touch it. And I'm pretty sure my name is not on that list. After cate opened presents we went to the beach.
 That part was fun, in fact we spent the whole morning on that beautiful beach, we swam and played in the sand. I buried Aiden in a pit and Emmy and I turned Cate into a Mermaid.
We were hungry after the beach so nana got us some fish and chips. Chips in Australia are actually "fries" so we had battered and fried fresh fish and fries. It was good - and a classic Australian food for the beach.
 We went home after that because the boys were tired and it was getting overcast.

We played the after noon and then for dinner Cate asked for Chicken Chilli with Cafe rio dressing and fried tortilla strips.
The neighbors came over and we had Cates birthday cake. It was a lamington cake with strawberry lindt chocolate balls and sliced strawberries on top. It was delicious!  Lamingtons are also an australian classic food. Overall Catie had a VERY australian birthday!