Party Animal(s)

I refer, of course, to the cute little duck on the straw in Mike's milk shake,(yes, I do mean milk shake) but I could have been referring to any of the lovely people who turned up to celebrate Alex's 18th birthday recently, or to Alex himself. Nibbles were nibbled, drinks drunk and a splendid time was had by all. But the highlight had to be fantastic birthday cake from La Abeja Maya (Queen Bee) and Alex, by now presiding' over events from his inflatable green plastic chair, made as short work of the candle blowing as he had of the present opening.




And then there was (talking about party animals!) Esther and Paul's visit and (thank you both), a new supply of Yorkshire Tea AND sun dried tomatoes! Scrabble was played (not by us, I hasten to say as we are both useless at it) and we made a trip to El Timon de Roche (timon=rudder, so I guess the allusion is to a ship and the restaurant is indeed on the edge of a cliff....) for dinner. According to this photo we seem to have been drinking water....must be an optical illusion!




Now it begins to feel a little like the end of summer. although we had one of the hottest days yesterday and we still have Ann's visit to look forward to. Perhaps it's because we have gone back to school-just a couple of classes a week at a new local language school to prepare us for the big intensive course in the new year-and because last night we had a "saturday night at the movies" evening with our friends, Rob and Lyn-take-away pizzas on the porch and a late night viewing of Como Agua Para Chocolate ( Like Water For Chocolate), a wickedly funny magic realist Mexican movie. Moving the evening entertainment indoors feels like the start of a new chapter.........