We had our official housewarming this weekend – went off rather well, had enough food, plenty of bubbly and lots of chatting. In fact we’re still eating leftovers, and likely to be for awhile.. especially the carrot salad (which was yummy, I might add). Wouter’s Mom very kindly brought two salads, not sure who she was expecting – but if the entire army, navy and airforce had arrived, we’d still have some left over. We’ve decided to hold these parties several times a year because they force us to finish things that might otherwise have been put on hold for months. Don’t suppose we’d get presents each time though. Speaking of which we did receive some lovely housewarming gifts, pot plants, towels, candles, bottles of wine. I’m a tad worried about the plants – figure if I put post-it notes all over the house reminding me to water them they might just survive.
Unfortunately we weren’t able to finish off the things we wanted to before the party – the cupboard people let us down badly, and the glass people ran out of glass *sigh* so I couldn’t have my shelves up in the bathroom. Still things are starting to take shape and one of these days….. our house is going to look damn fine.
Speaking of not looking damn fine…Â we had an impromptu braai last night as the folks popped round and Wouter had something fly into his eye. Much poking about with an earbud later and all I could see was what might have been a tiny cut on his eyelid. So we covered the eye and I got to sleep with the Dread Pirate Wouter.
As an aside…. Wouter figures I’m dreadful because I forgot completely to take photos of the housewarming but I was instantly taking pictures of him looking like this. :) In my defence I was so busy running around at the housewarming that I completely forgot I had a camera.