Birthday Boy's Day

For Ollie's birthday, we had a food based adventure day. I enlisted our friend Ruth to help me out and provide us with her company for the day.

In a style typical to me, Ollie was given few details - just being told that he needed to be ready to leave the house by 10am and that he didn't need to have breakfast first. About 10ish Ruth arrived and whisked us away in her car.....to the Christmas Hills Raspberry Farm....one of our favourite cafes. We got to sit in front of the open fire, while eating a very decadant brunch.

From here we headed out to Penguin - a cute little seaside village...full of penguins (not real ones though). We had a look round the town, and the village market.

Next up was time for more food.....off to the House of Anvers Chocolate Factory for some tasting.

And as if that wasn't enough food for the day....our next stop was the Cherry Shed, for a shared platter of nibbles (including Cherry Relish & Cherry/Chilli Jam) as well as sampling some Cherry Wine, Cherry Liquer and Cherry port...finished off by a Cherry Real Fruit Ice Cream.

But still there was more! A Birthday cake was waiting at home for Ollie - however I let my reputation slip a little and it wasn't even decorated (it was all about the taste this year!) and no photo of it either!

The day was going to be finished with dinner at a fancy restaurant, but being Sunday the place I had chosen wasn't open! So we just had takeaways....got to keep the food levels up!!!!

Thanks to Ruth for aiding and abetting me with my plans, and joining us for the day :)