An update on the 60th Birthday. After a bit of a chat to the brother he recognised the chance of a special birthday treat would be more appropriate than the buy one get one free naff pub!
We picked Mum up from her house with a few of the family in a white Limo with a pink interior. courtesy of
http://www.skylimos.co.uk. This was Grans idea and included a DVD of the whole evening and a few pictures. Champagne started to flow in the limo along with chocolate and some heavy rock music. Bit of Bon jovi etc.
The limo took us to pick up my brother and my Gran and more champagne flowed.
We arrived at the venue, a rather nice hotel, near to my brothers house. Meeting up with a couple more guests who had taken the time to decorate the table with balloons and other party bits.
We passed around a small photo album that included a few embarrasing pictures of mum and a few of the guests. This was received well with much laughter and pointing.
We enjoyed a beautiful 3 course meal and the staff presented the cake with a good rendition of happy birthday. The cake having being lovingly prepared by my wife.
I had prepared a speech for the toast, of some more sparkling French Champagne, this went swimmingly with the ultimate appraise of tears from Mum.
All in all Mum has been and is still raving about the party and has been showing her album to all and sundry. In the end it was an absolutely fantastic evening enjoyed by both family and friends and almost fit with my original plan.