Shower and Coffee
Topic: This and That
This has been a very good stretch. :) Yesterday was my friend Michelle's baby shower. It was a really nice one, and I had a very good time. I had to bring Ryan, but he behaved himself pretty well.
Tonight was the spouse's coffee. That was really nice too, and I had a very enjoyable time. It took place at a pub/restaurant near Burn Bridge called the Black Swan.
I ordered Yorkshire pudding with sausage. I've never had Yorkshire pudding and I figured since I live in Yorkshire, I had to try the pudding at least once! Basically the "pudding" isn't pudding at all the way Americans think of it. It's more like a somewhat chewy pastry base, or shallow pastry bowl that meat and gravy go into.
After dinner we played some fun pencil and paper games that I'd never played before. One was in the form of a poem that when read instructed everyone on what they got points for, or lost points for (such as wearing specific colors of clothing, etc.). Another game was "Have you ever..." with things like locking your keys in your car, locking yourself out of your house, or getting in your car and forgetting where you were going to go. The person with the fewest points won! There was another game called "Pass the Parcel," where a wrapped package is passed around the table, each person unwrapping a layer. There were pieces of Dove chocolate in between each layer, so everyone got a piece of chocolate. Yum! The person who unwraps the last layer gets to keep whatever it was that was wrapped.
I have to say that one of the times I am at my happiest is when I am socializing. We've got a great group of people here and I feel blessed to be a part of it.