Always one for great ideas, Jansen decided to celebrate his birthday up on a hill, literally, this year – Tamarind Hill, to be exact. Nestled on a quiet slope of lush greenery that is the Labrador Nature Reserve, the property overlooks (just barely, because of the dense trees) the sea.
At cocktails, he posed for photos with each member of his guests (captured no less, by a social photographer). To find your designated seat, you only need to look for the placard with your name and a lovely button pin bearing a picture of you!
While the main menu consisted of Thai favourites, the starter was a Western quartet of bite size morsels consisting of salmon, calamari, chicken and shrimp.
The highlight of the evening was when Jansen came up with a game for all to take part. In a bag, each guest had to select 4 other button pins. Each of this depicted a different photo of every one of the guests. So in total each guest would have 5 button pins with different his/her likeness on them!
Jansen then had to scroll through his ipad until someone shouts “Stop”! The picture of whoever photo was displayed on the screen won a trip to Bangkok with Jansen (at a later date), and the person who won has a chance to select another guest to go along. The catch was that he/she had to select from the four buttons that he picked from the bag!
Much friendly banter came about because of this; guests were cajoling Jansen and attempting to guilt him to showing favour for the prize! But he held firm! So the “winners” were Julie and Kevin. A great idea for a “game” and I will adapt it for a future party if I was going to have one!
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