We were made to wear these silly hats all night as the Woloshens, including the “boys” from London, England, all converged upon my sister-in-law Joanna and her husband Casey’s place in Richmond. In the first photo, we proudly display our birthday attire.

There are three of us in the Woloshens celebrating our 50th this year: my sister-in-law Donna, Michael and myself…we’d be the ones in the hats. We were treated to a sing-a-long and were well fed and teased all night…it was great!

The second picture is myself and Richard on the left and Mike on the right — the “Brits”. They showed us pictures of their new flat outside of London…beautifully decorated and right on the river with a nice balcony to watch the world (and the cruise ships!) go by. They keep trying to convince Michael and I to go and visit them before they come back to Canada for good in 3 years or so.

The next photo is of my lovely in-laws, Andy and Bea Woloshen — eating again. Sshhh — don’t bother them when they’re eating!

Then there’s my gorgeous brother-in-law Casey, firing up the barby.

It was hot under that hat…Donna kept sneaking her’s off all night, but we kept our eyes on her! I got to the point where I couldn’t take it off.

Hat head.

It’s worse than pillow head.

It was the first time all of the Woloshen siblings had been together for quite awhile, so we enjoyed ourselves very much.