It is my birthday next week and my beautiful sister wanted to give me my birthday present, but I had to have it early and I had to go somewhere, but I had no idea where I was going. My sister loves to give experiences rather than just things for your birthday.

I left the children in the safe hands of the grandparents and went and stayed at my sisters house. We had to get up early and be in the car by 7.30am. I was a bit excited because days with my sister are always great it didn’t really matter where we were going.

Driving, driving, driving, we were heading in the direction of Canberra, so I guessed that is where we would be going. My sister decided it might be a good time to now tell me where we are going and what we will be doing.

Well we were going to Canberra (3 hour drive from Sydney), and we were going to have a lovely lunch at a fancy pants restaurant over looking Lake Burley Griffin, which is a man made lake in the middle of Canberra. Then we are off to the national gallery of Australia to see the Masterpieces from Paris.

What a fantastic Birthday present, we had such a lovely day, just the 2 of us having lunch and then wandering around the art gallery. The exhibition was fantastic, it was great to see the originals of such wonderful paintings. It was the first time that these painting had been outside of Paris. Masterpieces From Paris.

Here are a few photos that we took during the day.

The view from our table at lunch

The rest are of us just being silly, we are so good at it.

Thanks to my wonderful sister and brother in law for a wonderful day to remember.