BIRTHDAY BEAR TRADITION

I have 9 old, wrinkly friends, who are retired or semi-retired. Five of them all used to work together and the other four are husbands. They didn't want to lose touch when they retired so they decided to meet and have lunch or dinner when it was their birthdays. However, they got disenchanted with buying a present every time, and decided instead to give a Birthday Bear (thats me.) I get passed from one birthday person to the next each time they meet. The fun part is, that I get to be dressed differently each time, usually to reflect some aspect of the recipient's personality or life.
PS: Two of my wrinklies, Chris and Bob, have gone on a working holiday tour around Australia so they don't celebrate with us very often.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

ALL ABOARD


Hi everyone, my human blog helper has been so slack lately in helping me record my birthday celebrations. She is helping me now with Bill's birthday celebration, which was last month, when today I am off to George's birthday. Hopefully she'll help me keep up in future.

Here I am dressed as a volunteer for the historic Pitchi Richi train service in South Australia. Bill just loves trains.

 Bill wanted to celebrate at Morgan's famous seafood restaurant at Shorncliffe and stay for a few days in a resort. I was looking forward to going but you would never guess, I wasn't allowed to go to the dinner. I had to stay in the apartment until they came home but they did celebrate dessert with me.

 So I was happy and Bill was happy when he saw I had kept him his favourite biscuit...a TimTam. Mary did a good job at dressing me in my railway gear.

I was happy for Bill to take over my shift of selling tickets so I could go and enjoy some dessert with the other old wrinkleys. I enjoyed my few days at the beach.
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  1. Jerry and BenMarch 16, 2012 at 9:26 AM

    What a fun event Birthday Bear! We love trains too, and we love taking them when get are lucky enough to travel to Europe. Does the Pichi Richi train still run? We don't have so many passenger trains here any more; there are some on the West and East coasts of the U.S., but not many anymore in the middle of the country.

    Thanks for sharing your photos!

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  2. Jerry and BenMarch 16, 2012 at 9:26 AM

    What a fun event Birthday Bear! We love trains too, and we love taking them when get are lucky enough to travel to Europe. Does the Pichi Richi train still run? We don't have so many passenger trains here any more; there are some on the West and East coasts of the U.S., but not many anymore in the middle of the country.

    Thanks for sharing your photos!

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  3. RebelMarch 17, 2012 at 7:24 AM

    Hi Birthday Bear... it was probably best you didn't go to dinner with your humans - it looked like they just had empty bowls mostly!! ha ha I think you were very good to save Bill his Tim Tam - if it were me, I think I might have accidentally eaten it.
    Mary is a good railway gear maker. You look real important at your desk. Bill looks very happy. I think you did a good job BB!!
    You always do.
    Thank you for visiting me even though I couldn't speak for a long time because I didn't have a computer and also because my mouth was always full of honey.
    Bye for now, Rebs XX ^O^

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