The Birthday Blog

 Our day started out with an early 7am for 7.30 breakfast...which arrived at 8.15!! Zambia time strikes again. 

We left Fawlty Towers at 8.30 for our 15 minute walk to the Livingstone Rhinos pitches. A brisk set up was needed, with 4 pitches to prepare for today's matches. We then had to organise about 250 kids into their teams and get wrist bands on them. We were then ready for the tournament. 

We started at about 1030 in the end and the tournament went smoothly without hiccups and was very laid back. Finishing just after 1 we headed back to Fawlty Towers on our 15 minute walk - with a heavy Gilbert kit bag, which had wheels but they don't work! We got back at 130 and the pool was open at 2.00. We jumped in for a quick 30 minute plunge before having pancakes glazed in lemon sauce and sugar before our river cruise at 330. 

The views on the river cruise were astonishing, helped with bottomless soft drinks! James loved it and said he had to take a step back from the Fantas! The scenes were movie like. We saw nature of the Zambezi river of many hippos and crocodiles along the trip. Whilst ending the cruise at 630 and we had a good sing song on the bus ride back.

When we got back to home they sang happy birthday around the table and we had some lovely cake to finish. We watched some good news, with South Africa being in bad form ahead of the world cup, only beating Argentina 22-21!! All in all it was a very good and memorable birthday which will be hard to be topped!!

Freddie

Comments

  1. Zelah29 July 2023 at 12:40

    Happy birthday Freddie and thanks for the update! Ava, the photos are amazing and it looks like you're happy. Miss you and looking forward to seeing you on Thursday love Dad

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  2. Georgette29 July 2023 at 13:00

    Ahh fantastic! Happy Birthday Freddie, one to remember! The river cruise looked fantastic and luckily no-one fell in with all those hippos and crocs! Sounds like you've all done yourselves and Chris proud today! xxx

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  3. Sara S29 July 2023 at 14:18

    Been hoping you would write the blog today! So great to hear of your day and what a day?! The river cruise did look like a movie, you were perfect in your description. Unlimited fizzy drinks AND cake. Birthday sorted. Can't promise you the same next year, maybe a boat ride from the Palace to Kingston... Missing you x

    Nana and Grandad say "We enjoyed reading all this Freddie. You've all had a very successful and exciting day. Loved the humour too in your report and so pleased you've had such a great birthday"

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  4. Sara S29 July 2023 at 14:23

    PS Loved the video of the cake and your speech. A man of few words! Thank you Mr
    Horrod for organising that.

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  5. Mish Cowie29 July 2023 at 15:52

    Absolutely loved seeing the pics of today's cruise and the hippos. You all looked like you were having such a great time. Thankfully the boat stayed afloat despite tempting fete with a Titanic re-enactment! Well done on your tournament today & happy birthday, Freddie - definitely one to remember!

    Ethan - we're missing you loads! It's super quiet around here without you & we're looking forward to having the house filled with the sound of piano playing & drums again soon :-) xxx

    PS Have you spotted any Tame Impalas yet ??

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  6. Anonymous30 July 2023 at 04:14

    Happy birthday Freddie! What a day to remember!
    George Dilllaaaaaannnnn it's cousin Jack's birthday so we've kept the tradition of surfing in the driving wind and rain of Cornwall! It's a "wave on" kind of day..... love Mum, Dad, Izzy, Maisie, Davo, Bet, Jackieboy and Thommo x

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  7. Lorna30 July 2023 at 07:34

    Happy Birthday Freddie. A birthday to remember! Fantastic photos. So lucky to see those hippos! We miss you Olivia and look forward to seeing you on Thursday. Love Mum, Dad, Josh and Scout xx

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