Cath's bday and Discover group

CATH'S BDAY BREAKFAST / BRUNCH AT OUR DUBLIN PLACE

And so to Cath's birthday - I have to admit, I wasn'tfeeling like organising anything so I asked Cath to organise her own get-together this time - she's such a good organiser - and so she decided on a brunch at our place.

For a lot of our friends, they'd never heard of the concept brunch before - so Cath asked them each to bring a thing or 2 and we merrily went along organising things. Of course, on the morning of the brunch - who had to rush off (hungover - after the previous night's work farewell to Cath) to the shops to buy the bacon, sausages, eggs, etc? You guessed it - me!

Anyhoo, we invited about a dozen people and it ended up being really cool - but naturally, only once I started whipping out the fried sausies, bacon, eggs and some fried, sliced hot-dog sausages which I like to call 'hotdog ala Alan'.

There was quite a spread in the end, as our friends brought enough food for a small army. They're so sweet - I think Cath organised that there would be just more than enough of everything, so a few people were asked to bring 2L of juice each while another was asked to bring a box of muesli and another a yoghurt, etc.
Well, in typical broken telephone tradition, the people in charge of juice each thought they alone were bringing for everyone - so instead of 2L, they brought 6L - and so did the other person asked to bring 2L. And the other. So we ended up with like more than a litre per person.

Luckily people were thirsty - and hungry.

Alan was cooking. That is, Alan was hot. Well you know what I mean.

Birthday girl found a spot on the floor and soaked up the vibe.

The girls:

The group

Francois plays Lord of the Dance:

(No actually, Francois plays a 'sharp C' (or something like that) under Cath's EXPERT tuition

Alan flirts. Courtney is mesmerised.

The boys:

But all good things must come to

an end and Cath gets her hugs,

in typical Catherine style, from

our priestly men:

BUT WHILE WE'RE ABOUT IT...

Seeing as the above group of buddies are our church buddies (and I only started my blog late) here are a few more random pics of some of em...

Firstly: Stewart and Gabs (who had a little boy in October 07) at there place for the rugby World Cup semi-final...

Playing non-drinking drinking games at one of the Church Discover evenings. On the left Tomas and waving goodbye is Francois.

Serving up the pie to Kati (who I suspect was not quite ready for this photo) and Francois is Courtney (my favourite American).

And seeing as she's also Cath's favourite American, here the two of em pose for yours truly on my farewell evening at the end of 2006.

And last but not least, at one of our Discover evenings last year (2006) we decided to have a meal with several people contributing to each course...