Reid family update

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Well we had quite a busy weekend in the Reid household even though none of us were actually here!

Alan and I had a belated Christmas party for Alan's work in Stavanger so we were flown down there and put up in a hotel for the night. Meanwhile Heather stayed over at Michelle's house and Hamish stayed at Jamie's.

The party was excellent. We all met at the Norsk Oljemuseum (Norwegian Oil Museum) in Stavanger at 6 and were given a guided tour around the museum. Apart from the tour guide talking in Norwegian only, it was still quite interesting. Then after the tour, we all gathered in the foyer for champagne then through to the adjoining restaurant for a meal.

There were around 90 people so it was quite lively. The food was amazing (best I've had in Norway so far). It was loads of tapas including chilli prawns, mussels, squid, tuna, smoked salmon, lamb satay, meatballs, asparagus, baked tomatoes, olives, etc, etc. And of course, lots of red wine. My glass was never empty!

There was a couple of speeches and also a comedian/compere who was totally bi-lingual! Alan was convinced it was Norman Wisdom! Anyway the meal was great then afterwards we were all given $50,000 (fake money) to play in the casino they had brought in. They had hired a company who brought in genuine games. So there was a roulette table, black jack and poker. I played a blinder at roulette but not so good at black jack. Over all we came out $10,000 up which was good.

At the end of the night there was an auction and you could use your winnings to buy things. We were outbid every time unfortunately but it was amusing seeing a pack of golf balls sell for $200,000!

We headed back the following afternoon then collected the kids on the way home. Hamish didn't want to come home!

So that's our news from the weekend. Nothing planned for this week. Heather is still enjoying her piano lessons and has started back at ballet now too. She's also looking forward to her 6th birthday on the 21st Feb. The photo was taken to give to school for the birthday board but I thought it was so nice, I decided to post it here on the blog. Hope you like it.