Niamh's 30th Party

It's party time as Niamh official becomes an auld doll by turning 30th. Here are Jude, Niamh, Sylvia, Marguerite and Lisa Marie.

The night began with a get together at Niamh, Victoria and Sylia's house. Megan and Aideen will remember Alli and Pete from last summer's Green Sox v Buttons softball games.

Noodles the dog was quite that attraction at the party, funny looking wee thing he was too.

Alli works with Marguerite at InvestNI. Here Marguerite samples the traditional Irish Stew while Alli just sticks to the swall.












Lisa Marie and Lyndsay are full of anticipation for the riveting, highly intellectual and complicated game, which is due to begin shortly.











Marguerite is now the super poser for pics. When she sees Jude with the camera all he hears is her shouting - me, me, take a pic of me please!











Oh yeah, the game was eh........eh.....pass-the-parcel. I thought I had played my last pass-the-parcel game when I was about 7 years old. No way folks here it is being played at Niamh's 30th. In this pic Lisa Marie passes the parcel to Kurt Cobain who funnily enough just happened to be at the party too.

Alli gets to open a wrapper from the parcel and the tension is unbearable. In this version of pass-the-parcel, when opening the wraper folk could either win a prize or they may have to do a forfeit. Alli won a prize but Jude had to down a bottle of Labbatt Blue in one go, which of course he did no bother at all, except for some of the beer running back down his nose, nice!






Oh no, Marguerite's has had a few Captain Morgan's and now it's her turn to do a forfeit, and this time it's the auld Irish Dancing routine. Jude has seen this particular party piece end in a trainwreck on a number of occasions - but this time amazingly, unbelieveably and thankfully she managed to make it around the table once without rookying herself.






Everyone had to bring a dish to the party. Marguerite, creative as ever, came up with this brill wee number. She went out and bought strawberries, oranges and loads of chocolate. The chocolate was melted down and the pieces of fruit were dipped into it and finally they were sprinkled with melted white chocolate. Lovely.








Haaaaapy birthday to you, haaaaapy birthdy to you - Niamh gets presented with her birthday cake for her 30th birthday.

DJ Victoria's music system was sick so everyone marched to the local Chinese restaurant which amazingly transformed into a nightclub at midnight. Here the boogying begins.

You can take the girls out of Ireland but you can't take the Irishness out of the girls. Here the auld 'handbag-in-the-middle' number gets a turn. Wha?

Sylvia does her best Donna Summer impersonation.

Marguerite loves going for a boogie. Here she is all smiles having just arrived at the Chinese restaurant / dance floor joint.

'You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life - See that girl, watch that scene, diggin the dancing queen'.

The party ends with Lisa Marie, Lindsay and Marguerite pulling some scary movie moves. Niamh's party was great craic - sure ya can't beat a wee boogie every now and again.