I’ve been meaning to write a post about Julie’s Birthday for a while now. But stupid IOC got in the way.

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It was Julie’s birthday last Thrusday (3/5/2012) during the midst of IOC… what a hectic week that was for me.. But in the hopes of not developing the martyr complex (HL English kiddos ;) ), I’ll tell you of all the things that I planned to make Julie’s 17^th birthday memorable.

I had originally planned to throw a party for Julie because I had IOC at the end of the week, but it seemed like I’d be a horrendous person if I didn’t actually do anything on the actual birthday. So the day before the Thursday, I went to ‘2n1’ at Indooroopilly and bought a cake. They had a few options and to be honest – IT WAS SO HARD TO CHOOSE!. In the window they had a puffer fish, hello kitty, cute puppy, and other decadent cakes that I can’t really recall… I even got my dad’s opinion which wasn’t that great anyways… he just said they were all good. But then I remembered  Julie loves puppy dogs so I ended up getting the puppy dog cake. What was super cute about it was that it had a little pink tongue poking out of its mouth!. They were all the same price anyways, so it wasn’t really a decision based on price. The little tongue sticking out was what really sold that puppy dog cake for me actually J It’s the little details that count ;)

Here’s a picture of the cute cake (stolen from Julie's blog ;) ):

I actually had bought a massive A3 card as well when I went and bought the cake and got people to sign it on the Thiursday. I actually think Julie saw the card :/ BUT NOT THE MESSAGES INSIDE, so that was good J

During first break on thursday Vincent took julie down to the library and eventually the lockers i think? to 'distract' her so i could get the card signed and the cake all ready with everyone surrounding it. It took longer than expected actually :s (everything takes longer than expected) I think Vincent had to preoccupy julie for about half an hour or so before she was actually 'allowed' to come up so people could sing to her. 

To be honest, i think/know Julie was upset because she didn't get any presents or even a big card on the day, BUT LITTLE DID SHE KNOW WHAT WAS AROUND THE CORNER ;)

(but i she suspected on friday arvo when we went out anyways... so that was not good :( )

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MONDAY (labour day). 

I organised a surprise party for Julie for this monday that just passed (7/5/2012). It turned out quite successful but i was mass panicking earlier on in the day. 

(earlier on in the day)

I arrived at 10am, an hour early, so i could hopefully reserve a bbq by putting down all the food on top of the bench and claim my spot. But luckily Tim got there an hour earlier than me (I asked him to come at 10!) at 9 and already 'bagsed' a place. We ended up spending the hour taking photos of the awesome view south bank presented to us and basically chilled in the sun until 11. Meanwhile though, Vincent had arranged to 'study' with Julie at slq and then later would say he was 'hungry' so they would go out to 'eat'. 

Here are pics of the lazying period: 

 By 11 o'clock only Anderson and Ken arrived and we started playing cards while waiting for people. By 11:30 i was mass panicking and worrying that this was the going to be the turn out for the day. I was calling everyone making sure they were still coming and i was reassured when all it was, was that people were running late. By 1o'clock everyone was finally there and i could text vincent to say that it was 'time'. We waited for about 20mins and during that time, people suggested that we'd get everything set up and start the BBQ so when Julie came we could start eating and open pressies and all that. Michael and Anita suggested that they would 'accidentally run into' Vincent and Julie so vincent would know where to lead julie. When Michael/Anita called to tell us that Julie was nearly there, everyone hid behind the bbq (felt sorry for Nathan because he actually had to get under the bench!) and waited for Julie's arrival so we could jump out. 

Pictures before Julie arrived: 

When we heard Vincent's and Julie's footsteps approaching everybody was anxious to see what her reaction  was going to be like. But... unfortunately... Julie didn't seem that 'surprised' :( BUT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA RIGHT?

Here's the video of her 'surprise' - she seemed rather annoyed that her face was covered :/ tsk tsk Vincent !

(INSERT VIDEO)


We sang Happy Birthday to Julie twice! once when we 'surprised' her and jumped out from the BBQ and again when Julie was making a wish and blowing out her candles on the cake (courtesy of Anderson!).
When Julie received her presents that were placed on the table she was relatively happy, but little the 'real' present was the PANDORA that i was holding. When i walked up and gave it to her after the 2nd happy birthday song, she literally spazzed out started clapping and smiling hysterically. Julie was so excited that she yanked the Pandora bag from my hands causing her to drop the ribbon!  I'M SO GLAD YOU LOVED THE PRESENT JULIE!! :) made my day right there!
The Rest of the Day was spent eating sausages and kebabs, all while chilling and just having a really great time.

Photos taken after Julie arrived:

(dropped the Ribbon: below)

The Avengers was airing at the southbank cinemas at 3:05pm so at about 2:45 we packed up and started walking towards the cineplex. Unfortunately Dan,Sho,Ken and Nathan couldn't come with us, so we said our goodbyes at the BBQ.
We got to the cinemas only 5 mins before the movie started... so we missed the movie because it was SOLD OUT! THAT'S THE SECOND TIME THAT'S HAPPENED TO US!! so we ended up watching the 5 year engagement instead. We had to wait around 40mins for the movie so we hung out at the back of the arcade. We started playing cards and IT WAS ACTUALLY QUITE FUN! i learnt two new games.. lol
We went into the movies late even though we were there 40 mins early.. yeah.. the game of cards was good (y) ahhaha.. anyways.. we ended up sitting near the front of the screen which was the worst experience ever and my first time ever sitting that close.. it was good in a way though, because we ended up eating most of the left over chips and drank what was left over as well. The movie was surprisingly great and easy to follow! It was an amazing story about how true love will always find its way back to you but with comedy of course ;) When the movie finished it was already 6pm and Anita, Michael, Nick and Anderson left. So it was only jenny, Vincent, Julie and I left. Julie and I missed our 6:15pm bus so us four ended up spending another hour at southbank. It was actually a pretty good hour spent lazying on the grass, looking up at the sky and attempting a photoshoot.

Photos taken after the movie:


Sorry for the barrage of pics, but between Tim and I we managed to take over 300 photos!!

I hope Julie had an awesome day and thank you to Tim, Anderson, Ken, Dan, Anita, Michael, Cindy, Nick, Nathan, Sho, Jenny and Vincent for turning up and making the day great :)