If I had to turn 30, I was going to do it in style. Allow destination weddings, this is the first of destination birthdays. Two years in the making, and we're finally about to kick off the madness.

d30a was born on a table in Montreal, with sassy maracas, too much red wine and in the company of amazing friends. I was dancing on a table, shaking my maracas (not like that boys, get your minds out of the gutter) with one of my closest friends- Alim -and we thought, "We have to outdo this party!" The obvious location for our fiasco was South America, and without much ado chose Buenos Aires.

Nothing is ever fun without the involvement of like-minded and fellow crazy-people, and soon my mad-sister-with-the-big-voice and two really good mates, Puja & Hafeez, were planning this along with us. We booked an entire hotel, looked into chartering a plane, alerted the media, put together the invites and the website and then we were off! Late additions to the birthday people included Mel, who taught me to drive in Kuala Lumpur and offered to sponsor any family I might find in India.

Feez, I'm sorry that you won't make it in the end. I bet this would have been your most memorable game of blackjack ever.

Thanks to Dan P for his fab invite (5 Legendary Party People, 1 Defenceless City- priceless!); Miss Bling for this excessively fabulous blog; Alim for finding us Jimena, Facundo & Daniel, Jenney S for the tango lessons; Pedro, Esther & Monica for the Spanish lessons; Mum & Dad for your Air Miles; Dario for all the local insights; Agent Bling's operatives on the ground for your investigating and reporting; and the invention of Skype that enabled round-the-world conference calls. And the trip wouldn't have happened without the superior-planning skills of the Magnificent 7.

Buenos Aires, brace yourself! Tomorrow morning, Miss Danger, Miss Chaos, Miss Bollywood, Miss Hollywood, Miss Punky and Miss Bling descend on Pistarini airport and we don't make any promises from there on.

Lock up your sons
Hide your brothers
Keep an eye on your boyfriends

We're coming to town.....