Drinkies!

Yesterday morning, my Aqua-aerobic ladies and I didn't go to Aqua-aerobics, for various reasons, but still met at 9am for our usual morning tea.  

Our 'usual' morning tea turned into an 'unusual' morning tea because the Bakery was unexpectedly closed due to illness, and we had to move along the footpath to another place for our coffee.

While we were there, one of the ladies (I'll call her 'Beauty') invited us all to her house the next afternoon for drinks.  The first questions everybody asked was "What's the occasion?"  and "Whose birthday is it?".

"No occasion" she replied "It's just a gathering of friends.  Bring your own drinks and yourselves, but don't bring anything else".

There have been so many celebrations lately, like Easter, Mother's Day, May Day, Australia Day, ANZAC Day and numerous birthdays that it feels like there has to be a reason for all gatherings now.

When we first moved to this town, there were parties every few weeks for no particular reason except to get to know each other.  It was 'Party Central' and by the end of the first year, we were EXHAUSTED!

So, this afternoon at 3.30, we carried our esky full of beer and sarsaparilla down the street (about five houses down) to Beauty & the Beast's house.  

It was my first time in their home and I felt welcome immediately.  They have a lovely home and there were delicious cooking smells wafting around as we walked through to the back deck.

A couple of the ladies were already there with their husbands and we all made ourselves comfortable outside and chatted among ourselves. 

After about 20 minutes, Beauty appeared from inside, with plates of food.  Every 20-30 minutes, she suddenly re-appeared with even MORE food ... all home cooked with an Asian feel ... all absolutely delicious! 

All I could do was take small samples, knowing full well that The Bare-chested Chef was working away in my kitchen preparing my favourite of his specialty dishes!  

So we ate and drank and laughed and chatted as the sun set behind us through the trees.  After a while I bragged to everyone that we had our own personal chef at home cooking our dinner, and we had to make our excuses and leave after more than two hours of very pleasant company and wonderful hospitality.

***Excuse me ... my dinner is served***

My goodness!  Home made Fajitas with every filling known to mankind and even home made wraps!  My chef is the BEST chef in town - maybe in all of Queensland!

I am so full **rubs belly**

I feel like I'm a bit of a failure ... I should have taken photos at Beauty and the Beast's place and I definitely should have taken a photo of our dinner table tonight ... it was a spectacular sight! 

There are enough leftovers to have fajitas for lunch tomorrow - yummo - and there'll be no drinkies at anyone's house tomorrow, so I can stuff my face with whatever my personal chef cares to make for dinner. 

The camera will definitely be out and ready for action, so I'll share the visual with anyone who cares!