Russ and Rhinos' 50th!!!

Party of the year went off a couple of weekends ago, with the calaboration of mine and Rhino's 25th Birthdays, we hired out the old Irish Society in Ponsonby(C/O the Skeates - thankyou very much guys, such a great venue!!) and got leary to say the least. So good to be home, after a couple of years of floating around the globe wherever my backpack followed me, to find that not much had changed and I slotted straight back into the good old days. caught up with a lot of Fam and friends which was fantastic, not as many as I'd hoped but I'll be around all of next year so have plenty of time to track you all down. Back to the party though, it kicked off Saturday morning with a "meeting" up at the Lynfield Dairy, Pies and Just-Juice for all, then the trusty team of Rhino, Mikey, Anth and myslef spent most of the day picking up bits and pieces and setting the place up for the Party of the year!!! then the people slowly started turning up, starting with my family which was sweet, and by midnight we had about 100peeps and the dancefloor was pumping! Tim and Tyson did a great job DJing, and Dave(aka Mr. Chippy) hooked everyone up with deepfried chips and semosas all night long! you three are awesome! and my night was topped off when Clint, old mate whos been living down in Queenstown, last minute scored time off work and paid out his ass to fly up for the night!!! so good to see you bro, love you to bits and so stoked you made it to the party man, wouldn't have been the same without you! as the night went on, a minichopper got hi-jacked and was cruising through the dancefloor and last seen doing donnuts in the kitchen, there was an all out brawl in the kitchen too, which started off with a friendly gesture between birthday boys which turned ugly. The old cake-in-the-face trick, but talk about spit the dummy Rhino hahahaha. and at about 4:30 in the morning things were starting to wind down so Dave got out the fire extinguisher and cleared the hall. such a good night, such great people. I love New Zealand!! more photos of what I've been up to and who I've been hanging out with coming soon. chau

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