Still Fedor's Birthday

It's amazing, his birthday seems to be unending! Not only is he still receiving presents (although we know there is still stuff lost in the mail. At least the drawings of my niece have arrived today). But more importantly, we also finally had his birthday party last Saturday. About 35-40 people in our tiny flat, for dinner... And it was a lot of fun!!!


I did spend about 2 days in the kitchen, making lasagnas, quiches, pies, pasta salads, rice salad, potatoe salad (huzarensalade, actually! Very nice...), et cetera. But it was totally worth it, because everybody seemed to appreciate it a lot. Particularly my real Dutch FE-DOR Apple pies were highly appreciated:

And nearly everyone kept with the theme of the evening: Prosecco Party! So there was lots and lots of Prosecco to go around (and actually, there was lots left as well). The next afternoon, after having finished cleaning, the glass disposal looked as if it was January 1st!
But I also had fun letting people try out some of the liquors I made. As expected, there was little praise for Rucolacello (probably because it's kinda gross), but the limoncello and arancello was liked...

All in all, I can say that I had an absolutely great time, but it is too much hassle to do on a regular basis... Maybe next year again.

Finally, great news from Holland. My Sis-in-Law gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Meet Hannah:

Isn't that lovely, with Leah sweetly caring for Hannah? I am very excited about seeing them all next week, when I go to see the family...

In other news: Fedor broke his computer. Stupido.

Ciao,
OJ

Halloween: the photos

And finally a photo from last Summer, when we went to Ternate with Enrico and Belinda. I know it looks like a scene from La Dolce Vita or something, but it's Belinda and me swinging on a local village dance...........



Ciao,
OJ

Halloween etc

What can I say: that was quite a party!!! We went to Caroline's house (Fedor's boss) for our Halloween party and it was great. Of course we had been debating for ages about how to dress, but finally we went our seperate ways and just did what we were best at: Fedor dressed as a 1970s porn star and I dressed as a corpse (well, that is: Dr Black, the Cluedo main character who gets murdered in that game). I wore black clothes and with the help of some fake scars and blood, looked as if someone spent quite some time clubbing my head in with a candle holder! Probably not Ms Scarlett, because there was too much blood for that: I suspect Reverend Green, but I think we'll never know...

Among the other guests at the party, there were at least 10 witches (they may be able to start their own football team!), Wonder Woman, Batwoman, a slug, a schoolboy and most impressively: the Hulk... Now this would obviously be an appropriate moment for photos, but unfortunately Picasa has decided that it doesn't want me to upload any photos right now. However, I can give you a link to my Facebook photo album instead, which is HERE.

The party was so much fun that we actually made stayed until we could get a morning tram home. So we saved money on a cab! Of course this did mean a long sleep-in on Thursday, but since this was a holiday anyway, it wasnt really a problem.

The bigger problem was the fact that because of this bloody holiday (All Saints), the University was closed from Thursday until Sunday, so I had to find another location to do my grading. I had to grade lots and lots of Macroeconomics exams and I have now finally decided that I really do not like to grade.... Anyway, today (Saturday) I finally finished that stuff. The rest of the weekend is quiet for us, no visitors and nothing else planned (Except for going to have dinner at a friend's place tomorrow), so I am happy.

Ciao,
OJ