Christmas/New Year in Moama

We decided to go to Moama later this year. As mentioned in the post below, we had Christmas at home with Adrian's parents. Then Adrian went with the boys motorbike riding for the next 3 days. He went along with Darren Fox, Scott Graham, Marty Peters, Steve and David Overdyk and a whole bunch of other people. They were meant to go to Licola but because of the fires ended up going to Tallanghi (not sure of the spelling), which is up near Kinglake. I couldn't wait for them to get home because that meant I could start my holiday as we were leaving for Moama on the 29th.

It was great leaving a little later because that meant our New Years party was at the beginning of our holiday instead of the end, when we are all thinking about packing up and going home. So with it only being 2 days into our holiday we were all ready for a party. And what a party it was. It was a black tie, cocktail party. But all that meant was you had to come to the camp fire wearing a tie. Us girls went to a little more effort dressing up than the guys. Adrian had a flashing bow tie, Scott made a cardboard one and wore it around his waist covering the fact that he was only wearing his jocks (for a little while anyway). Tania wore a tiara that ended up on Micayla's head and I wore half my costume from the 1920's Murder Mystery night in the Hunter Valley.

The night started off pretty slow with cocktails being made here and there while sitting around the fire. Then the rain came. Luckily we were on the edge of it and only got about 20 mins of rain, but we had an awesome nature provided firework show with the lighting. Because of the rain it made us move to under the blue tarp where all the cocktail ingredients were and this is where it got pretty messy. Cocktails were being made one after the other and then we started making our our concoctions. We started adding different coloured liquers to the Cowboy shots, making them cowgirls, a green one we called cowhoofter and one that turned out brown we called cowshits. We were having so much fun we were falling over because we were laughing so hard. We were drinking shots from unusual places and we were dancing the conga and lots of other "dancing" around the camp fire. Lets just say I don't think I want to see the video. We finally crawled into bed around 3.30am.

This mess was early in the night. I don't think I was capable of taking a clear photo by the end of the night but the table was definately not this neat by the end of it all.

Unfortunately when this photo was taken Bailey was fast asleep in bed so it's just the 5 of us. We are with Adrian's parents, Micayla and Bailey's Oma and Opa.
I just love this photo of Micayla and her Oma.