We had a visit from my oldest friend last night.
Brad Ryan was in Singapore visiting the family of his beautiful wife Celia. They came by our place last night and we whiled away a good few hours from 6:00 pm to nearly midnight. The time seemed to fly by with good conversation, some very early childhood memories and a long overdue catch up.
Brad and Celia's two boys, Jonathon and Luke who are 11 and 8 years old, were delightfully entertained by Gabriella, Sophie, Vinya and Leyna. They were not in the slightest overwhelmed by being surrounded by so many girls.
While the kids went for a swim, we had cheese and crackers by the pool. It took us quite a while to realise that they had gone back inside while we chatted away until well after sunset. Then we went up for dinner for which Claire had prepared one of our favourite dishes of lamb kebabs made on skewers of bay leaf branches*. This was accompanied by tomato and cheese salad and a 2010 Wolf Blass Shiraz.
Brad is heading back to Brisbane tonight. It was really great to catch up and we all plan to do so again, but not to leave it so long as we have this time around.
*For the recipe check out the CSIRO Well Being Diet at http://www.csiro.au/Outcomes/Health-and-Wellbeing/Prevention/Total-Wellbeing-Diet.aspx
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