Another year older, another trophy on its way

I’ve just finished celebrating my first birthday in the sunny tropics but, it seems, not much else changes: Chris extended his no-birthday-present record to an unbeaten run of 10 years; the German football team is beating everything that stands in our way; and England fans are back to believing this year might the one after-all…..

My actual birthday fell on a Wednesday this year – which is universally accepted as being the most pants possibility in the seven year birthday cycle – but this year I beat the mid-week blues by celebrating both the weekend in advance and the weekend after.
Birthday cake from my lovely colleagues

So pre-birthday Saturday began with a few friends at the Latin Quarter eating tapas, drinking wine, and trying to dance like Shakira Shakira (Chris scored well on two out of the three tasks – the third was just plain wrong).

Hmmm, tapas

Latin lady blowing on a big trombone

Her hips don’t lie

Germany camped out in the Portugal goal area – again

Is there any better sight in the world than a sulky Ronaldo. Ahhhh, diddums…

My post-birthday Friday was spent watching the lower ranked teams battling it out to see who gets to lose in the knock-out phases. So England versus Sweden and stuff like that……..

England versus France

So all in all a very satisfying birthday weekend. Just need to remember to book Monday 2 July off work now so I’m not too tired after the final. Not something the English will have to worry about, I’d imagine. 🙂