Dylan's 9th Birthday

It's not every day you celebrate the last of your single digit birthdays. So Dyl splurged out with two parties on his actual birthday it was presents in the morning followed by cake at school.

Transformers and Ben Ten were big this year.

There's never enough and some hard decisions to decide who gets the bigger piece.

On the next Saturday though it was time for his actual Birthday party, this year it was a Defence Force theme. So the following pictures will explain the day away. Enjoy because Dylan and his mates sure did.

Dad doing some fine carving for Dyl's cake, Jodie and Em decorated it.

We started off with a tour of VOEA PANGAI that was once the Navy base rugby team woke up and moved on from their air conditioned recovery. Sorry!!!!

No part of the ship was missed!

We all piled onto Satisfaction for some tandem Tubing!

The action shot of the day, Blaze and Lala going down.

On the way back in the boys fell off the tube like rats from a sinking ship and had to make their own way back to the dock.

Once that was complete we loaded up the battle truck Tongan style and headed uta (bush) for some serious Army games, BB guns and all!

Sal gave the safety brief. "Don't get lost in the tall grass and remember there ain't no snakes in Tonga boys!"

First up was Kokoda, Lyndon and Sal supervised from the roof of the truck not that we could see them to often.

Next was capture the flag of course Ozzy versus Kiwi! Also in a different terrain, not so much grass so the supervisors stood more of a chance.

Lala making his move as Sal supervises, beer and all.

The Kiwi's went down 2 nil I'm glad to say.

When we got home Jodie said they all stunk Dad's included so it was out to the pool for a fresh water swim.

Jodie and Em's master piece.

Crazy kids after a long day.

The Q tribe with HMAS DYLAN 09.

Dylan done and dusted for another year!!!