You know those people who can make ridiculously good birthday cakes for their kids....well I'm not one of them! But I'm trying to remind myself that the kids don't actually care about the finished product as much as the time you spend together. Well the cookies didn't turn out entirely as planned, but as Soph and I scraped the burnt charcoal off the bottom of the oven tray and opened the windows to let the smoke out, there were a lot of laughs! I like to think that  times these create a whole other set of special memories...am I right? Anyway, we did manage to eventually make an edible lot -so here are some before and after shots!

In other news, this is what Tony got up to on Saturday -a day of 4WD driving as part of our cross-cultural training. He loved it! Fiji won't quite be Africa, but still good skills to learn and generally good fun.