FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE

This has been a strange week because I had to look each day on the calender to know which day we were ! When the Wednesday is a Sunday and you suddenly realize that it is Saturday made me rather confused.

On Monday I did some shopping for New Year's Eve. We were the same as last year and this time it was Nicole's turn. We were six and everybody brought something to eat and his drinks. That's very easy then for the person who receives, she only has to put plates and cutlery on the table.

On Tuesday morning I prepared a rice salad, with salmon and grey shrimps and cherry tomatoes. I had also bought 3 bottles of "Champagne" without alcohol for Mr. G. and myself. Each person brings 3 little gifts which we put in a basket.

In the afternoon we watched TV and rested and at 7 pm we went to Nicole and started our party. The basket was full of gifts and stood in the middle and while we had our first drink, one took out a little box and we all had to guess what was inside ! The one who had the right answer got the gift.  It never went very quick but it caused a lot of laughter !  I found the solution of three parcels, one were 2 kitchen towels, a little violin as decoration, and a brush for the kitchen. Mr. G. found the content of a box which was a beautiful paperweight in glass.


Only a part of the different plates we had brought

The eating, the definitions of the gifts and drinking brought us to midnight, where we all went outside to see fireworks. In Waterloo they were forbidden with a special permission you were allowed to do one, because it causes too much fear, hysteria and even heart attacks to all kind of animals ! Not only cats and dogs but also horses and cattle.


Mr. G. with Isis and with his wife and Chantal

We only saw two fireworks, but they were enough to scare Nicole's little cat to death and she escaped to the open door on the street ! She had never done this because she is an inside cat. We looked for her everywhere and finally I told Nicole to leave the entrance door a bit open, maybe she would come back. And she did after a long half an hour she was suddenly there ! We were all relieved and could continue our New Year's celebration and were at home at 3 pm! Not bad for vintage people.


Nicole and her cousin and Mr. G. with Monique



Expecting 2020

Of course the next day we were like zombies and did a lot ..... which means nothing ! As we expected nobody and even if ... we stayed in our training suits the whole day.

The week ended with a nice lunch with girls from painting and scrabble ! We got together for the traditional Sauerkraut, which has to be on the tables the first day of the new year. We waited for the second, so we were a bit more hungry. We went to the Lunch Garden of the Carrefour department store and besides having a lot of fun the Sauerkraut was delicious. We were 6 again and everybody had something really funny to tell what had happened during these days.

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