BP#2 Am I a Kiwi or Am I an Aussie? At least I know I'm turning One!

This was Naomi's first birthday. Fairly specific, but there are a number of families who would have a similar situation, with parents born in a different country to the kids or kids living in different countries to which they were born in etc.

Invitation: Was a photo print of Naomi, with NZ and Oz flags on it and the text.

Decorations: Thanks to when my parents had visited just after Naomi was born, we had a packet of Australian flag balloons, we then got some black with silver fern balloons from the $2 shop here for the contrasting NZ theme. We hung them on the curtain rails and light fittings inside and around the edge of the market umbrella on the deck (The black NZ progressively popped over the morning as they got too hot in the sun!).

Food: For food we served food which BOTH Aussies and Kiwis claim to be theirs: lamingtons (the first time I've ever made them - apart from some fuzzy memory of making some in class at primary school), meat pies (the mini party variety), BBQ sausages on bread and pavlova.

Drink: We served 'Lift' (the aussie lemon soft drink) and 'L & P' (the kiwi version of the lemon drink).

Cake: It was two simple rectangle chocolate slab cakes, one was iced as an Australian flag and one iced as a New Zealand.

Activities: We had a gumboot (for the Kiwis) and thong (for the Aussies) throwing competition. It wasn't a distance competition, it was the person who got it closest to the target.