Finally this time we were having Paella for lunch! And the menu was pork ribs Paella. We were 6 people and Diego’s colleague Carmela brought a Chistorra. Yes we had a starter this time!
Like the Sausage so this was our starter! #yummy! While Diego prepared for the Paella and he said that we can start to make the sausages and Thomas suddenly remembered that he has bread! But still very frozen so we need to postponed the sausage for about 30 mins as we need the bread to be on the oven first
Idk what happened with Thomas kitchen because he can only turn on one stove on so they were kind of “OK, stop this one first and use the electricity for the oven and then continue” and they had kind of changing cable situation on the kitchen mwahaha
Thomas and Diego kept opening the oven to see if the bread
got warm as they or should I say everyone wasn’t that patient to wait 😉 and
when the bread kind of warm enough they started to make the sausages and eggs
and here is our starter 😉
While the boys busy with their own cable and starter, me and
Sara was busy on ordering a cake. Last time it was Dutch Pie, this time we need
to give other bakery a chance and I suggested that we ordered from Cake Home,
the famous Russian bakery 😉 and there was a tie between carrot cake and red
velvet cake so we ordered half and half. I asked the cake home guy to write
“Happy Birthday Sara” but he said “No, only happy birthday” and I was “what is
going on with this guy? He can write Happy Birthday but he cannot write Sara?”
and he said “when you receive it you’ll understand” okay then! Make the cake
and deliver it to me and let’s see if I can understand 😉
I still hold my previous job as tasting the salt but
Carmella and Thomas also had this job so there were a different opinion
regarding the salt and the cook choose they opinion instead of me booooooo
mwahaha but it still turns out good 😉 Here’s the pork ribs Paella!
And then our dessert arrived! Cake home had a really cute box which is a pink ribbon and turns out the “happy birthday” was a sign so that’s why they can’t add Sara on it and yes I understand 😉
When we received it we were doubting is that even carrot cake? or Tiramisu? I know their carrot cake is not like typical carrot cake but it is!
Unfortunately they were running out of candles! So Thomas took out his best candle which I am so reluctant to put that candle on the cake because it doesn’t really match but Gianna just put it like bam! Here’s the candle haha
Happy Birthday Sara! Hope your thumb heal very soon! Hahaha
I think that’s the most realistic wish ever 😉
I think that time was already 5-6ish and Carmela had to leave first so there was 5 of us left at Thomas’ and somehow we keep talking about random things until suddenly a big brainstorm idea came hahaha it was about opening a Taekwondo class but the teacher will have to be Diego, he just need to go back to Spain to earn his black belt and come back hahaha. At first I thought Thomas and Gianna was just joking just put this as an idea but then the conversation getting more and more serious and they were really tried to convinced Diego to be the teacher and Sara said she can teach Flamingo dance and what can I do? Hmmm I can be the admin! Hahaha Thomas and Gianna can be the investors 😉
This was going on until it’s about dinner time around 8-ish and we went to eat Pizza and Fiona joined them for after dinner and Thomas and Gianna told her about their plan of opening a Taekwondo class and she seems to be on board also haha I didn’t know that you guys are serious about this, it’s just so funny watching you brainstorming without any written agenda, Gianna said “it’s all on my mind” mwahaha Well, well, well, let’s see how it goes… Meanwhile, everybody get back to your own job 😉
Even though we had Paella as a lunch this time but we ended up until late evening haha the same things as if we had Paella for dinner 😉
Thank you Diego for making the Paella but my fav still either the rabbit or seafood and Happy Birthday for Sara! and really hope your thumb get fix soon so that we can start doing Via Feratta!
It was started when Thorben posted the pic of me and him with the “adoption” title and somehow 6 of his colleague congratulates him on the adoption, they don’t think that Thorben legally adopted me but they thought that Thorben supported my education or whatsoever haha and then Children’s day is coming and his company has a family day where the company allowed their employee to bring their children, spouse, girlfriend to Disneyland! When Thorben said it he wanted to take me as a child to Disneyland and of course I said yes! I mean it’s Disneyland for free, what can you expect but at that time they haven’t set the date or if it will be fixed that they will have family day on Disneyland…. until this message came up:
But in the end I couldn’t get the kid ticket because of course I didn’t fulfill the requirements of a kid 😉 but since Marina and Thorben are working in the same company therefore they can bring a +1 soooo here’s our family experience! Featuring parents: Thorben and Marina, kids: brother Freddoy and sister Marlyn 😉
We were supposed to arrived at Thorben and Marina’s home at 7:30 but since the day before was a Hungover League day and somehow I woke up late so I arrived at their home at 7:45 and we arrived Disneyland exactly when the park open at 8:30.
Marina is sooooo well prepared, on the taxi she’s already make a fast pass account for all of us so by the time we arrived at the park we can get the fast pass, she downloaded the APP so that we can see the waiting line for each attractions, she knows where we need to go etc etc. 30 mins before we arrived the FP for Soaring already at 3-4 PM and by the time we arrived it was sold out! so we got FP for another roller coaster 7 dwarf something like that and they were like “Marlyn it’s because you’re late” 🙁 huaaa Marlyn got blamed#1
We arrived! and there was a line of course what else can you expect and Freddoy made a documentation of every queuing that we did haha Thorben was the one that least excited, dunno why.
My goal was just to ride the Tron! so that’s the first things we did! We waited for like 50-60 mins for Tron and it was so cool! I really like the idea that we sit in a motorcycle kind of ride and Freddoy was scaring me he said that I need to talk to the staff because I can still moved my upper body and he said that my lock wasn’t right and for some seconds I believed him until the ride is finished and he said he was joking, I was holding to the tron so tight! haha We were all thinks that Tron is so cool because we have the indoor and outdoor roller coaster so we wanted to ride it again but wait until the sun came down so it’s kind of dawn and with the lamp and so on must be so good! so we decided to come back again before the fireworks, meanwhile we went to other attractions 😉
Because Woody’s attraction and Peterpan’s was kind of close with Tron then we also visited them, we wanted to visit Woody’s first but somehow we found Peterpan’s first so here we are for Peterpan’s. From the app it was written waiting time 45 mins but turns out it was 90 mins! Sth must happened with the machine because it’s just too long. We realized it too long after we played so many games and the line wasn’t really moving! And yes people, Marina and Thorben prepares the game as well! haha Thorben brought card game Dobble and Marina’s got a game on her phone called heads up where we need to “Act it out” whatever’s written on the phone and one person guess it. There was a very funny act when the things that Marina need to guess was “Making OREO” we tried to demonstrate it until Thorben just made us on a line, Freddy-Thorben-Me. Freddy is Latino so he’s got a tan skin and me is from South East Asia so I got a yellow skin and Thorben is from German so he’s got a white skin and to make it worse Marina understood it! mwahaha she said “oh, oh , making an OREO!” and we were just laughing 😀 Freddy said “Idk which one is worse, that Thorben did this demonstration or the fact that Marina understands it” but I found it was really really funny! We really attracts the attention due to we were loud and they also videotaped us while we were playing this game and I wish they could record the oreo things haha
Then we went to Woody’s Ranch 🙂 it was a funny attraction and we were kind of get it directly really really less time in waiting. It was funny in a way that the cart really bumped us to left and right and we even jumped in to Woody’s twice!
After woody’s there was a parade! We didn’t watch the beginning of the parade, it was toy story-Zootopia-Finding Nemo-creepy Prince and Princess and the one that Freddoy’s like MULAN!” I couldn’t see the parade that clear because there was many people in front of me and I said “What is this that I’m seeing?” and Thorben hold me on his shoulders so I can see what is going on and I did say hi to the characters 😉
After watching the parade we just walking around the park on the way to have a very late lunch or very early dinner, depends, on the Cheesecake Factory. But we were taking pictures first on the famous castle 😉
Then in front of this castle there’s a very funny Donald duct statue, the grumpy one and Thorben said “Take a pic of me with grumpy Donald” why oh why you need to be grumpy?! #puppy eyes
Grumpy Thorben
Smiley Daisy and Grumpy Donald
And we also taking a picture of a Laowai that take a picture for Laowai’s 😉
Next one was Pirates of The Carribean! OMG! There is no words to describe how cool is this attractions! The effect, the sounds, the way they made you feel that once you were underwater and then above the water was amazing! Thorben said to me that we were really under the water but meh! don’t believe it 😉 It is really really amazing guys, you need to go for it! Either with or without FP, I think it’s still worth the wait, well we were lucky the waiting line for this wasn’t so long maybe also 40 mins-ish.
I think we went to fill ourselves with corn and turkey leg and before our real food from Cheesecake factory! Owh we still able to watch Tarzan shows 🙂 I like the shows, Marina said Thorben was sleepy and he almost slept but I always scream so he woke up and started to clap his hands automatically mwahaha come on Thorben, Tarzan is a good show! you need to wake up 😉
Then, it’s time for the real food 😉 Our stomach is calling! When we sat down finally on the restaurant, this is the moment where I really feel that I’m so tired, my legs and back was aching and when I ate the bread it’s kind of a realization that I was hungry! the whole time! but I didn’t fell it on the park.
Then we came back in, we wanted to do Tron again but after we fill ourselves it’s not a very wise idea to sitting on the motorcycle like that so we went to Pirates again! and still amazed even though I already know what happened. Then we want to a buzz world sth like that where we need to shoot the Z target, I was sitting with Freddoy he shot 1Million stars and I was only 830,000 ish but not bad 🙂
We went to the 7 dwarfs and it was also a funny roller coaster ride 😉 Freddoy was holding his phone but I’m afraid that at some turn the roller coaster will get crazy so I was like “Freddoy! hold your phone” haha
Then the sun is kind of gone already so we went for our TRON! tarararam! but due Tron was on the other side of the park and I need to have a pee break for a while, only me 😉
The waiting line for Tron wasn’t that long and I was so happy that I can get the first row, Thorben and Marina was on the second row and with all the excitements and ready to scream! the lights on the side of the rail was on and it was time for accelerate and suddenly we got stopped and the lights on the side already on the end of the rail so we think it’s time to accelerate! prepare to shout! but…. we are still there…. I looked at Freddy and asked “Were we stopping on the first time we got to Tron” and maybe it was stopped for few seconds… but it changed to minutes… and up to the point where there was announcement that sth wrong with the machine and they want us to wait. So Thorben use this moment to take picture of us, we got a really cool picture though.
And we said “save your phone Thorben” be careful we might accelerate after this like a surprise attack! But after few more minutes….. there was nothing going on until another announcement saying that “this ride is temporarily suspended” I was like NOOOOOO huaaaa I was on the first row! and Thorben said “Marlyn, it was your pee break! otherwise we would have gone to the train before this one” huaaa Marlyn got blamed 2#2
So the staff manually opening our safety equipment and ask us to stay on one line because the rail is narrow and we got out one by one.
As a compensation, they gave us a FP to go everywhere and at that time it was 20 or 15 minutes to 8PM and the fireworks was at 8:30 PM and Soaring was on the other side. So we ran like hell and it was rainy also, so dramatic! Freddoy gave us direction but it took us longer and Marina kept saying “I’m the one that have the map, it’s the wrong direction” mwahaha well, kids you know 😉 and our last queue for Soaring! we were on the first row also for this one! wohooo
Finally it was fireworks time! We didn’t get the spot of the main entrance castle, we got the side spot but I think it’s still cool! And Thorben got a task for me, he said “Marlyn, you need to shout as loud as possible to ruin all of these people’s video” mwahahaha and then there was a time for Frozen song and everyone was singing it 😉 And after few minutes of watching the shows I asked Thorben if I can go to his shoulders again mwahaha so I kind of blocked other people behind me #sorry for not being sorry 😉
The laser show, fireworks and real fire flame was amazing! Rest in peace environment #quote from Marina’s 😉 but it was magical! Thank you Marina and Thorben for taking me and Freddoy to Disneyland 😉 not only that you choose us to be your +1 but also during the whole time we were on the park, you already planned where to go and what to do during the waiting line, I’m sure if I don’t go with you I probably wouldn’t do half of what we’ve done…#ooppsss also our mother’s Disney expert analyst Boramy! haha We did quiet a lot in one day and I think I can say that my pee break also give us the blessings mwahaha otherwise we wouldn’t watch Soaring 😉
Another round of Hungover League, another round of creative jersey’s design, complete ornaments, adrenaline rush, shouting scene on Cages 😉
Credit to Aaron who made this flyer!
This time they will have 4 days of League with elimination day! so for 3 weeks they will play with 6 teams and on the last week there will be 2 teams that got eliminated and only 4 teams will go to Final. Who are they?!?! Here I present you:
Bowhemian Rhapsody featuring Captain Marco, Raoul, Cher, Andreas, Hutch, Eileen and Florian. I like the name so much! #Radiooooo someone still loves you teret teret tereett
Arrow Hub featuring Captain Nikita, Aaron, Eric, Ben, Agu, Aggy, Kwaki, Brenda and Alfred.
Arrrchery featuring my running buddy Captain Miguel, Gene, Jason, Anderson, Thorben, Viki, Gigi and Ricardo…. plussss 3M First Mate!
Rainbow Seven featuring Captain Felix, Viktor, Hudson, Jose R, Tammy, Christine, Helios, Jose Q.
Machines featuring roomies Captain John, Rodion, Gordy, Qi, Kun, Kate, Uliana. Just like what Cher said, you need to have Washing Machine! just imagine where everyone got a serious machine and then there you go, a washing machine photo printed on your white shirt. It is so cool and such an important machine, I can’t believe you didn’t take washing machine as a consideration phewww. I am fully agree with you Cher!
Lethal Laowai featuring Captain Zara, Lars, Radu, Jerod, Adam, Kayla, David and Benita. At first when Zara said his team name, I heard it Little Laowai and so did Luis! so I’m not alone and we were “why is it little?” and she said “no, not little, it’s like lethal weapon” and we were “ooooo”
They are all very discreet regarding the names of each team and their jersey’s design, I need to wait until 7th of May to see it 🙂 The team according to my eye sight divided to black and white haha! it’s good that rainbow seven wear green pants and arrow hub has orange color so they are kind of easy to differentiate. Team Lethal Laowai doesn’t get their jersey on time so they are wearing black shirt but I guess the real jersey will also be black #smart Marlyn!
Arrrchery is very prepared with the cheerleaders ornaments! they have a big flag, small flag and even jersey for me! wohooo I’ll scream for you arrrchery!
FIRST MATCH
There was accident happened 15 minutes before the league start which is Aggy fell down and she twisted her ankle 🙁 so Arrow Hub played with only 6 people. Imo they were so brave and they really played well! Come on Captain Nikita! You’re doing good!
Me and Marina was sitting on the bench, we did hold our big flag but then we blocked Aggy as she was sitting behind us so we use our small flag. Marina always prepared, she made protein balls and ginger chocolate snacks and we- me and Sveta ate them, not all but quiet a lot 😉
The first target game actually Arrrchery was always “almost win” so in terms of technique they are not really far behind but then on no-target game to my surprise Gene and Tonic get out almost every time by the first 5 seconds, come on Gene and Tonic! I know you can do it better. I was soooo happy when finally, FINALLY on a no-target game they got full point 😉 They were far behind but this only the first match and I believe in you, Captain Miguel!
Team Rainbow Seven was really really REALLY! good at the target game, all of their team are so precise! and just shot directly to the target and bam! one white target was out and this going on and on and on, probably it’s the perks of having a German captain, everything need to be well calculated 😉
What surprising for me on the first match came from Machine! Qi was Shazam! He was everywhere, this side, that side, caught the arrow from Viktor! this must be feel like a victory to be able to caught his shot! He also did the famous jumping shot- even though both of the jumping shot that I saw wasn’t really shot anybody but it was really really cool and what a privileged to see that 😉 Rodion always constantly good so it’s not a surprise that he performed well, but! he really gave me a surprise when I saw the way he dodged from the arrow, since when he became flexible? just like matrix reloaded movie where Keanu Reeves dodged from the bullets, that’s more or less or probably you need to use many imagination to think how Rodi did that 😉 but the point is he was so good at dodging from the arrow. This is what we called match! I said to Rodi “Rodi you guys were so good and really tight with the opponent team” and Rodi said “we played to give entertainment to Marlyn!” wohoooo yeah! this is what I’m watching for! and of course without a doubt, Machine won the first match with 6.5 points! Impressive!
At the end of the game there was “another one bites of dust” music playing from the Bowhemian Rhapsody and btw there were only half points behind Machines!
SECOND MATCH
All teams were kind of equal as the final points were between 4-5. So it wasn’t a big difference like the first match.
Before the game started, Qi said to me “Are you ready for the entertainment?!” He even put a tape around his leg, when I asked what is it use for? He said its for Machines!!!
Gimme your machine style, Qi!
Arrrchery got another support from the sub-Ricardo! They are playing better than last week and are able to get 4 points! For the first two games they lost and the third one it’s Arrrchery against Bowhemian Rhapsody, first I could feel that they will win because they still have 3 targets attached and BR only 1 left but then the they got stronger so both of them only have 1 target left and I was like “No! Not again!” Me and Marina was screaming like hell! “One more! shoot the target! go!” and I don’t know what words that came from our mouth what I can remember is Marina’s face got red after that hahaha We were sitting, standing, getting closer to the glass door it was all of our energy was pour to that match and they won! Followed by a massive, I mean MASSIVE scream from the spectator side-btw this time not only me and Marina but ALL the people that was watching and since Ricardo there, he was running around the field with the big flag 🙂 haha
There was also funny moments when Thorben and Anderson forgot to wear their mask #facepalm. Also when at some point somebody spill water on the spectator’s side and Rodion was almost slip and he said “Somebody tried to break the Machines! but the Machine’s not easily broken! ROAAAA” and he said to me “See Marlyn, before there was water here but now it’s sticky because Machines was here!” #Rodi is so entertaining. I started to like Machines 😉
Aaron from Arrow Hub is really cool, he was almost the last guy that always hit the last target and his response was only “yes” without a sound so it was only a hand gesture kind of yes if I was him I could scream out of my breath!
Ummmm hello to the girl that has black purse? Your alarm ring at 10PM! is it time for you to wake up? I’m afraid that you might be a vampire that wake up at night #woooo getting spooky!
THE ELIMINATION DAY
I still couldn’t believe what I just witness from yesterday! I guess because there will be 2 teams that got eliminated so all the teams are getting super super super serious, they are taking everything to the next level. The level of shouting, screaming and agitated was escalated pretty quickly. I think shouting and screaming was my area of expertise but I was so wrong, definitely they are many of the players that having this area of expertise as well, not only the man but the woman could scream the same level as me #Marlyn’s not gonna let her screaming throne slip away 😉
Before the game started, I thought Machines gonna be unstoppable, I mean they will win the game again but turns out no! Machines was stoppable! Let’s see who’s able to stop the machines 🙂
Arrrchery is missing Thorben because he is in Thailand but Marina kept reporting to him who we lost against mwahaha but also who we win against! And after 2 times lost we finally win over Machine!!!! It was such a nice game, the target was still attached to the bunker, if they moved the bunker the target will fall off so when finally Arrrchery hit it we were so relieved! and since Ricardo play the subs for Thorben, I was the one that responsible for carrying the flag.
At some point we know Arrrchery will not make it to the final even if they win all the games it’s just mathematically not possible, so what did the cheerleader do? We forced everyone to support us! I mean, Marina made a nice muffin cake, in order for them to have it, they need to hold the flag, with dignity! This will be the last chance for them to hold Arrrchery flag! Ling also supported for us when Arrrchery is not playing against Bowhemian Rhapsody and there was some match when me and Marina sang one of Queen’s song 🙂
Maria-Marina
Muffin
Marlyn-Marina
Us
dragging John
dragging Chadsey
dragging Jose R
dragging Christine
dragging Kun and Qi
For the non-target game we finally won against Rainbow Seven! Btw this team is CRAZY! it’s like witnessing Game of Thrones season 6, not season 8 and definitely not the finale episode of season 8 mwahaha they were brutal! they were so brave, all of them was unstoppable shooting, not from behind but from the front line! everybody was upfront and keep firing each and every opponents! Viktor was going all the way! so when Arrrchery won against Rainbow Seven it was really an achievement and here I ran my duty again 😉 Machines was always on the entrance gate and they are all tall people mwahaha but they let me in saying “yes this is your team you can ran the flag” thank you Machines!
Christine from Rainbow Seven was kind of “Mother Theresa” she always calm all her teammates down whenever something happened that bothered them, even when her teammates tried to talk out of it, she just stopped it by saying “OK, stop, don’t talk about it, let’s be better on the next game” awwww <3 what a chill Mama 🙂
So who was the one that able to stop machine?!?! the winner for the third match goes toooooo…..Rainbow Seven with a full 6 points, amazing!
The leading team so far was Bowhemian Rhapsody with 15.5 points, followed my Machines with 15 points, Rainbow Seven with 14.5 and Lethal Laowai for 13 points, soooo close!! Need to remember that there was one match on the target-game where Cher was the one that shot all 5 targets, that was super! I think that deserves a credit 🙂
Unfortunately Arrrchery and Arrow hub got eliminated, still, thank you for Arrow Hub and Arrrchery for being spare no efforts during the match 🙂 #They don’t seems so upset to get eliminated 😉
Thanks to both Captains!
Congratz to Bowhemian Rhapsody, Machines, Rainbow Seven and Lethal Laowai for going to the final! Btw I received a noise complaint, but since Arrrchery got eliminated so I don’t think you guys should worry about any noise on the final.
THE FINALE
I arrived Cages wearing Arrrchery jersey and first reaction from Aggy was “Gezz..you’re still wearing that” haha only me and Marina that wore it even their own team Gigi and Thorben didn’t wear it booooooo. Met Chadsey and I screamed “Chadsey, Chadsey, Chadsey” in front of his face like everyone else and he just stunned there he said “Perhaps if I’m not moved she will think that Im not exist and just let me go” Well, Chadsey it doesn’t work that way 😉 I asked Tim “Can I shout in front of your face like everyone else?” and he said “Yes, only you can shout in front of my face” wohooo what a privileged.
On the final since there was only 4 teams so they need to play back to back and rest only one time and play again wogh! that’s require a high stamina! There were many winning and losing between all the 4 teams which was hard to keep track on. All of them playing soooooo well!
At some match, Qi was always the last man standing from Machines and he kept fighting like a soldier or should I say like a machine 🙂 but somehow Machines was not winning as much as before 🙁
However, I like Rodion, he’s always so funny and entertaining, he said “Seems the machines is broken, machines doesn’t perform well, machines need some oil” haha
Machines got many supporters from another Russian speaking country and of course me and Marina like to shout “Machines!” it’s just their name is the shortest one so it’s easy to shout 😉
As I said the final went so fast and one team that kept winning the most was Rainbow Seven! They are unbelievable! There was no words to describe because almost all the match they won and I was “What?! Again? R7 winning again?” it’s beyond belief! Especially on the non target game, Tammy wasn’t even holding her bow and arrow she was all super ready to catch any arrow that was directed to her, and she caught it! Not once, not twice but a lot! like really really a lot maybe 5-6 arrows! that was amazing! she was like a watcher, keep watching everybody 24/7! Christine was a fighter she kept firing the arrow like the guys but sometimes she got shot but at least she’s giving her best. The guys were super good as well! Viktor is without a doubt no need to explain but what surprising to me was Jose R, I’ve never see he’s playing but turns out he’s pretty good at both catching and shooting the arrow and with Helios, Hudson and Felix, this team was just complete!
I didn’t keep the record so I wasn’t quiet sure of who’s winning but after seeing R7 kept winning the match I started to think that there’s big possibility that they are the winner. And then Tim announced the winner and it goes to….. Rainbow Seven!
Congratz for Rainbow Seven! Also good job for all the team! That was a hard final and you guys really proved that you have a good stamina to be able to fight till the end.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We really need to give the special thanks to all the referee, Tim, Wyatt, Chenzi and all other referee from the team like Chadsey, Arron, Thorben and who else I forgot haha without them this league will not happened and thank you for having a big heart and accepting all the shouts that was pointed directly in front of your face 😉
Thanks also for Arrrchery for involving me as one of your cheerleader and for taking care of all the ornaments including all the snacks to a higher level 🙂
Thanks to all the archers!
And last but not least! We have additional archery member! Baby Lowe!
Baby Lowe, I promised your father to put a pic of you as long as I made a good references to the dad… And I think I did…or? haha 😉
P.S : All the pictures was taken either from whoever that shares on the group or on their wechat moments and special message for Michael Sun, we missed you! There is no professional video made because you were on a business trip 😉
It was Marina’s bday yesterday, Sunday 12th of May and she wrote “I’d love to just have a casual brunch with friends” but I don’t think that how it works girl 😉 you know what?
D day -1
Because Thorben got her the present of learning how to bake with one of professional head chef that got used to do pastry for industrial level, the one and only Tessa! Tim also helped Marina to do all the cakes but they are such a good student that followed every instructions from the teacher until they realized that it was too much like TOO freaking much.
But I really don’t see where is the issue of baking too much? And Thorben said because their fridge is not enough to contain all the cakes!
See the German engineering in here? Upside down bowl, pickle jar haha and this is only one side of the fridge 😉
They baked and baked and baked for nearly 7 hours, from morning until sunset. So the bday brunch plan got fast forward to one day before which is eating all the cakes plan 😉
For me, I don’t see any problem at all and not surprise because I know Marina bakes a lot before, their eclair was awesome!! They really did a good job! Here’s the video before you see the final products!
And then I came to her place on Saturday, the guest were me-Boramy and later on Brendan. I never ate that much eclair in my life, it’s awesome! I think I had enough eclair until end of this year 😉 so it means I still can eat some more mwahaha still 7 months to go!
We were there until midnight 00:00 and Happy Birthday to Marina!
D day
The real and planned birthday brunch is here! Liquid Laundry!
Followed by Viva Ibiza party at the W hotel, Luis arranged the table for us there 🙂 we were so excited to go there…. but before going there… what did we do? We went back to Marina’s home to eat all the eclairs 😉
However, the waiter from Liquid Laundry came and say happy birthday to Marina and brought her the pancakes! we were laughing because we all want to leave but then she got a dessert 😉 it’s still a lovely pancake! I helped Marina to eat it #Marlyn is so helpful
After eating the eclairs at Marina’s, we head out to W hotel! Viva Ibiza and Luis Pena here we come!!! We brought the eclairs there haha I think they really got every way they could to get rid of it ASAP! Don’t worry you will finish it sooner or later 😉
At some point Thorben told me “You can tell Luis that he can bring the cake soon” so yeap!!! there will be another cake!!! within this two days I think I ate more cake than I had last year!!
Luis had to kick out another guy that was sitting on our table that not his guest so that it will be good for the pictures 😉 haha and what cake that Marina got?!?! Chocolate cake!!!
And here is the pictures after Luis kick out some random guy that occupied our table ehemmmm move 8!@#ch!
Marina, if I can guess probably this was your favourite present:
AWESOME Marina! 3rd place of Triathlon 😉 So proud of you!! #strong Marina
Happy happy birthday Marina! Yesterday was awesome! Your birthday literally is the birthday with the most dessert possible! #and I allowed it haha! and you’re the birthday girl that baked her own cake! usually, we-the guest were the one that should prepare the cake but not in your case 😉 thanks for providing dessert for all of us 😉
Marina, thank you for inviting me, not only for your birthday but for every time you bake something, I really like and appreciate it. Going to your apartment is some kind of nutritional improvement for me and I always have a good time with you #oopss also Thorben! haha 😉
First of May, Labor day but another person’s birthday who is that?! It’s Eiman! Why would you born on a National Holiday?!?! let me be specific, 17.5 people need to cancel their plan and attend your birthday party, very thoughtful of you 😉 you made this little baby awake until his sleeping time #poor baby
On Jovita’s Bruch it was the first time Eiman aka E (see below pic of why I should call her E) went to FOGO and she said “oh this is a good place as I need to find a place for my birthday” and where did she had her birthday? NOT FOGO!
#First Request (I should call her “E” from now on)
And she gave me the very absurd instruction ever!
Didn’t mentioned the name of the road, which floor and she didn’t even create a group chat made me a bit skeptic is it really a birthday party? or is it some kind of prank show and I’ll be the only one that come?!
Later on she sent me the real invitation saying that “she only made it for me” which I know she said the same things and just copy and paste to the other 17+ people, see! this is what happen when you don’t have a group chat you need to forward the same message one by one, you really have so much time don’t you? 😉 but….this invitation is not sincere invitation, it followed by another request.
#Second Request. Yeap I need to wear black dress
I thought that she will also wear black dress so we kind of sisters but then she was wearing a very flowerish dress possible then why did you suggested me to wear black dress then? I could wear my Mickey Mouse hoody instead as we were not wearing matching type of dress!
Even with the formal invitation she didn’t mentioned that Highline is located on the 6th floor of Ascott Hotel and I went to Hong Kong Plaza asking the information “How can I go to 6th floor” (because I was counting the floor and it was only 4th level, how can I go to 6th floor?!?!” and she looked at me and said “We only have 4th floor” mwahaha yes I know I can count! but she told me that I need to take the hotel elevator accross the street. And where was E while I was lost? having her champagne or whatever drink it is, she even ignored my message 🙁 boooo
But anyway due to my intelligence 😉 I made it to 6th floor and met her! the birthday girl! We were on the rooftop before the dinner start. Highline put a round sofa and the guest divided into two sections, colleague and non-colleague of her hahaha. But for the sake of the picture we were kind of “blend” 😉
Highline Rooftop
I was talking with E’s new roomies Davide about Ramadhan as E will start her fasting on Monday and I was tempted to try at least the first day. I know what Ramadhan is that we cannot eat and drink from sunrise until sunset. I said to her that I can not not to eat but for drink I need to drink, I can try the first day and E said “Well, that’s not Ramadhan” followed by Davide “It’s only your personal diet” haha but I think I’ll try, I will support you on your first day! I won’t come to your place to eat at 2AM so relax! hahaha Davide hasn’t gave me the spare key yet 😉
Then it was dinner time, E already chose the menu before, it was a set dinner which all good! I didn’t even pay attention to what is what because all food was gone fast, I was sitting with a very good eater! featuring Costa Rica guy Ivan, Brazilian girl Roberta and two Italians Paolo and Giulia (Sorry if any mispelled name, again, E didn’t create a group chat so I have no idea how to write all of your name) all I can remember was the duck was the winner! Winner winner duck dinner 😉
After dinner, Highline gave E a birthday cake which is only two slices of lemon cake actually. OK, to be fair the cake is tall and thick but two slices yo! I mean… when the cake arrived and they sang happy birthday to E, I was on the other side of the table and our good eaters group was looking at each other “That’s it?” and the waitress or waiter (maybe Martin) gave another slice to us and Roberta said “Is it all for me?” so… we have to share this one slice of cake among 4 of us! (Paolo doesn’t eat sweet) the cake is good but come on one slice yo! It’s good that Phil and Julia prepare another proper for 17.5 people kind of cake 😉
I was talking with Ivan and Roberta and with Ivan we went on the same path like student here and then working, we even started our master and graduated at the same time. With Roberta omg this is so amazing! she gave me the very best tips of not getting robbed in Brazil but among all tips I like the story of her when she almost get robbed on the bus the most hahaha when some guy approach her and saying “Give me your phone” she shouted “Give me a kiss” hahahaha so that everyone on the bus looked at her and what a coincidence that the bus stopped at the bus station and opened the door and she just ran away hahaha owh girl! that’s the best!
Followed by E’s colleague named Gary which apparently we always missed each other even though we were on the same place at the same time. We were on E’s apartment when she had halloween party back in 2017, we were on Cages for England world cup and finally we talked on her birthday in year 2019. See you in two years from now then! hahaha
Thank you for having me E! I even wear the black dress (See I followed your request! what else do you need my queen? haha)
Have a good year ahead, let’s do our skydiving but please pay attention to my insurance 😉
Last but not least, don’t put your moments only 3 days viewable so that I don’t need to ask you for below picture 😉 hahaha!
Even! when I specifically asked she still gave me another request!
#Third Request
Followed by a voice recorder saying that I need to write Beyonce, Shakira, Princess whatever gezzz! I should’ve stop texting her otherwise her request list is getting longer and longer 😉 and she’s such an ungrateful “Princess” saying “weather are so nice and I can’t believe you’re at home writing story” #facepalm
Jovita prepared this brunch since like a month ago, she has been asking if everyone will be available on 27th April at 12PM for ages. She will bring her polaroid cameras, prepare games and specific topic to discuss, she asked everyone to confirm with the brunch menu one week before the actual event etc etc, full of preparation style. Even she prepared the flyer! Once someone organized something and there is a flyer you know it’s another level of brunch already 😉
Beautiful flyer
The brunch place was at Fogo, the restaurant is in 6th floor but I entered on a wrong door so I had to walked up stairs only to realize that the door was locked and I was like “Damn it!” and went to 5th floor opened the “back door” and the guy looked at me in amazed (read: confusion) “how did you get in from that door?” haha they showed me where is the elevator to go to 6th floor and there I was, on a very elegant place called Fogo. Jovita booked the terrace for us which is unbelievable! The terrace was super nice! the sun is there, the wind is there and what else? haha table, chair, the decoration was just perfect.
She even prepared the “game” (aka Gin game-as the specialty of Fogo is their Gin) I’m not a big fan of alcohol drinks but one glass is fine 😉
Eiman got her gin which is elephant gin, I got my London Dry Gin and Veronica got sth with tea or so. All of our gin’s were very special, just… Eiman was better 😉 and now she will request gin with cheery and apple every time she goes to a bar.
and Jo also hired the photographer that documented the whole brunch. Eiman wanted to punch the photographer on the face because he didn’t stop taking pictures of all of us, he took his job very seriously which rare in these days, it calls dedication Eiman! hahaha
After one glass of gin and tried the other person gin’s we moved to the brunch table, time to eat!
We had 12 amazing women (me included)! #wohoooo we had our self introduction before we moved to our brunch table. The presentation of the food was outstanding. I ordered charcoal grilled chicken tandoori, banh mi and bread and pudding. Turns out the charcoal grilled chicken tandoori was a ceasar salad, I don’t mean to complain but when the guy gave it to me I said “I didn’t order the salad” I mean salad yo on this very cool place? I need to have meat! but yeah turns out it is a salad, he didn’t make a mistake because he’s got all the list of what we want to eat but it’s still good anyway so I’m not complaining 😉
Behave for the purpose of the picture
Can’t wait to eat!
The bread and pudding was amazing, they even had a scoop of an ice cream on the side, I spread the ice cream on the bread and Eiman asking me “what were you doing?” I said “isn’t it how you suppose to eat it? with an ice cream” and I saw Jo also putting her ice cream on top of the bread and pudding and I said to Eiman “Look at Jo’s she’s also putting the ice cream so I didn’t do it wrongly, she only did it in a more graceful way than I do” 😉
We were keep eating and talking and the sun was perfect but at some point I need to clean up my sunglasses and that’s the time when I took it off and I was “WOW! this is very shinny” I don’t know how Veronica, Jovita and Lauren handle it as they don’t bring their sunglasses haha
I really enjoy the conversation going on when everyone started to share some stories about everything, their diet plan, the unstoppable brunch or free flow deal that exist in Shanghai, the coffee enegma things that Mable did. The conversation went randomly to a Filipino ayi mwahaha completely other directions from diet but yeah we’re women, we love to talk 😉
I especially like the story when Jovita’s did her skydiving in New Zealand and after that specific moments, she decided to quit her job. She said that when you jumped out of the plane, you see everything from the top and there was some moments where your life flash before your eyes and you can make a clear decision afterwards. Similar with Jo’s, Veronica’s friend also did a skydiving before she decided to went back to Australia and somehow this is such a must before made a decision 😉 knowing that not only Thorben and Marina did skydiving makes me and Eiman want to do it also! Eiman, I will have to go before you! otherwise I won’t jump out of the plane 😉 It will be super cool if the next meeting with these wonderful women was on someplace to do skydiving hahaha!
The afternoon went just like the speed of the light suddenly the food was finished! oh nooo… and we moving on to our “discussion table” the topic that Jo asked us to research was about endocrine system but in the end we discussed about sth else which is feminity, and Mable gave us the tips and tricks about how women need to behave in a certain way on a workplace, just wish that I will be able to behave like that someday…or probably never! hahaha
Finally there was no photographer around us anymore, Eiman must be so happy! hahaha but at some point we need to leave because it was already almost 5PM I guess? and we all either had something or the weather were just getting more and more windy, I mean we were on the terrace yo so it’s cold! hahaha
Thanks Jovita for organizing this brunch and gave me the opportunity to feel how superstars are with a photographer around 🙂 thank you for all the preparations that you made for this brunch, I mean look at this name tag this is not made from a shitty paper kind of things, this is a serious name tag, if I zoom in the picture you could actually see a pattern on the name tag! Eiman reminded me to take it home for the next event, so Jo pay attention, Eiman has her name tag and she need to brings it to the next event 😉
Thanks for making the food deals for us I know that me and also Eiman! we are complicated “can we just order ala carte?” “we don’t want to take the free flow drink”, “where is the place?” I mean we basically asking many many questions frequently, you might need to make an FAQ next time mwahaha
Last but not least, it was very lovely to meet another 11 women! <3
All equipment are sets since last time Diego cooked Paella and such a waste if we only used once, due to Thomas already did a “big investment” for it then we (read: Diego) need to use it again and again and again 😉 Yesterday- Easter Sunday, 21st of April was our 2nd time of successful Paella dinner! (out of 3 times trying)
Diego insisted that Paella is for lunch, not for dinner and Thomas supported this thought due to last time we did it on dinner time and he need to cleaned up and it took him a loooooonnngggg time to do the cleaning, sorry Thomas! but…. someone (read: Gianna) couldn’t do that so for this time we will also do it on a dinner time but we all will help Thomas with the cleaning #determined and then Thomas agreed! well, Diego need to agree as well, he need to adjust his thinking (again) that dinner in Shanghai is equal to lunch in Spain 😉
The cook- Diego and Sara arrived first at Thomas’ and then me! then Hanna and Elena (Idk how to spell your name, sorry if I spelled it incorrectly) followed by Gianna and last but not least Fiona. We miss you Christian, get well soon! and hope that you’ll learn from the fact that one beer always lead to another 😉 hahaha
This time, Diego made a seafood Paella, Thomas did the cutting, me and Sara did the garlic sauce… well basically I just put the egg and garlic on the blender and the rest was Sara haha but I still made a contribution to the Paella! I also put the ink and became the salt tester 😉 I tasted it even when Diego didn’t ask and at some point he said that I need to stop otherwise we won’t have enough soup for the Paella #ooopppssss
While Diego and Thomas doing the cooking, we, the girls were just chatting 🙂 The topic was Sara’s thumb injury that still need 6 more weeks 🙁 huaaa but hope that this really the last 6 weeks you ever needed! also her story when she came back from Singapore to Shanghai and at 5AM ish, she’s been followed by a guy #woooo spooky! nope, not spooky at all because the guy made sure that Sara knows that he followed her by spitting all the time gezzz! also her neighbor that played the piano at 6AM on the weekend! and mind you that her neighbor is not playing some kind of Beethoven or Mozart but more like practicing which is only do-re-mi-do-re-mi #poor Sara and Diego! and we, girls were creating a story of how to stop it, maybe we need to buy Sara violin or cello so she can also practice it at 6AM on the weekend 😉 hahaha
Btw the boys really did a good job!
Looks
YUMMY!
Fast forward to around 8-ish, Diego said to me “Marlyn, it’s getting ready, I already covered the Paella” and good good! Diego and Thomas was worried that it won’t be enough and we were thinking maybe we need to order pizza etc but Thomas got even a better idea, he said “If it’s still not enough, we can order Dutch Pies” and me and Sara were just “woooooooo” sooo do we ordered Dutch Pies in the end?! let’s see but first take a look at the final Paella 😉
Perfection!
The chef reaction….
It looks good, Chef!
It is!
And the eaters…
Our belly is as happy as our face
We killed it all! I had many prawns while Diego only had 1 maybe mwahaha I realized it when I need to put the prawns not on the plate and the other people still put it on their plate, it means that I ate a lot and then I asked Diego “Did you eat the prawns, where is the rubbish?” and he said “No, I haven’t eat it” and I stopped eating the prawns hahaha
Sadly Hanna and Elena need to leave 🙁 the rest of us still there!
The Second Round Crew
After the Paella we still need to eat something and this is where the Dutch Pies begin! Sara ordered the surprise package wohoooo so we will have 7 different flavors since it takes one hour to deliver it so we continue with Gianna The Storyteller 😉 Being the longest time in SH which is almost 10 years, for sure she witness all the growth of SH, the convenient life and technology that we feel today, she didn’t get it 10 years ago but this is what makes her story interesting! Especially the story when she tried to corrected people on how to behave? yeah that doesn’t work girl, just move on hahaha! I really love the story when you wrote the “love letter” to the police haha that really was EPIC! followed by drunken Thomas and Giovanni in Hongkong, yo, taxi in Hongkong is not cheap! Thomas you wasted the taxi fare haha! and the story about you and Thomas’ mysterious friend that made me and Sara wants to meet him while Diego wasn’t around 😉
After so many times laughing, Diego kept saying “Thomas checked your phone” he became grumpy and all of us actually became grumpy, “Where is the dutch pie?!” but we cannot complain because from 饿了么 it’s written around 21:51 it will arrived, but then 21:30-ish the bell rang and we were “Open the door! that’s the Dutch Pie” and here it is our lovely surprise package 😉
TADAAAMMM!
At first we thought one flavor each but yeah we became barbarian and just pick it with our fork every flavor hahaha so we got to taste all flavors! and my fav goes to…. all of them except coconut and strawberrys 😉
The last moment the cake looks like a cake
What a dinner! and I did the washing! Gianna also did the cleaning, Hanna and Elena helped to throw the rubbish, Thomas uninstalled the equipment, I called it TEAM WORK! hahaha
Not only us that had a good food, Demon and Luna will also have many fish for his breakfast 🙂
We even have set up the Paella LUNCH! next month! finally it will be lunch 🙂 we all already write it on our calendar so…. it really should be lunch time. What will be the Paella theme for next month? Stay tuned 😉
It started after Thorben helped me moved to my new apartment
and we had brunch at Penta Hotel and two weeks after that it will be his
birthday on 7th of April and he made RSVP for 14 people. His bday
fall on Qingming Holiday even though some people will travelling away but 14
people should be easy to reach considering that I don’t think anybody want to
miss his bday 😉 I mean…why would them?
Then… I think I get used to unlimited list going on and on and on haha another wechat group of 5 people started and the list was for 14 people. So optimistic that he will make 14 out of 5 people 😉 but then this list getting long and longer through the following days. Ben said that he need to reserve the whole place of Penta Hotel instead of a long table. Up until this list blew up for 30+ people and Ben wasn’t so sure if Penta Hotel has chairs for all of us, but then Thorben said “knowing all of you, it will be like this sooner or later so no chair needed”
Expected
And the day arrived! He booked 3 big tables for all of us and we all had chairs 😉 It was all you can eat buffet with no time limits! And to make it better we can also order one additional dish! Penta Hotel is the best!
I was so happy that Stefan brought his son- Nemuun! Look at this cutie! He was just there, eating quietly but at some point he got bored and I tried to talk to him, apparently he doesn’t really want to talk to me mwahaha however I didn’t give up, considering that I already invested my Saturday and Sunday for 2 months in Goethe Institute, I need to speak to him in German! And the result was….it didn’t really work mwahaha but in the end we still managed to play 4 in a row and dopple card game and he was really good on it!
Focus on the kid please
Yep see the kid!
After some time, he wanted to play with his star wars game ALONE! I got rejected! Huaaaa Nemuun 🙁
It was a lot of fun with many new stories, one of them is Giorgio’s “haunted” apartment wuuuuuu it’s getting spooky! Against all odds, nobody want to be his neighbor so he has a whole floor of apartment by himself which is pretty cool for partying but there must be a reason why nobody want to rent it out which is……
Let’s just moving on to something funny when 1 hour of labor turned to 5 hours of labor and 1 person turned to 6 people hahahaha! Yep, Ben and Luis also moved to a new apartment and Thorben said that my stuff is only 1/10 from their stuff! Yes! I don’t have that much stuff then 😉
Luis came late because he’s still doing the unpack but still managed to look gorgeous!
Another funny moment was when Nicole tried to take a
thousand pictures of her 😉 I was talking with Ivy and I heard Nicole said
“take another one, again and again” haha such a job to take your picture!
Hahaha Here’s finally her picture, thanks to Julia and Michelle that patiently
that took it 😉
The…
Photographer…
Involved…
For Her!
Ivy and I also had a good selfie! I was either eating sth or
looking somewhere when I heard my name being called “Marlyn” and I know it’s
selfie time! Haha
Yep I was eating
Cleaned up the desert!
Moving on to Tim, he looks so elegant in his shorts and shirts, he can pull it off with just a simple shirt no wonder he’s a news anchor, therefore I need to say hi to him but either I was too excited or it just need to happen, I spilled the water to his shorts, he was on his phone and he said “bitch” so I feel (read: not really) bad 😉 I need to remind him that it could be worse, it could be a bloody mary, but since I don’t drink so……. It’s only water and it won’t leave stain, well it shouldn’t happened on the first place but it did haha
Rich-Wyatt-Tim
I think we were there until….3PM ish and before we walked to
Zhongshan park which is only at the corner. That day was perfect, weather is
really well cooperate with us, sunny and just nice!
Ben insisted of asking Luis to buy him Frisbee but since Thorben remembered that he has Frisbee so he didn’t let Ben or Luis brought it, in the end he borrowed Frisbee from somewhere and they played it for quite some time 😉 sooo think we owed Ben a “thank you” 😉
Then up until Marina said “let’s make a circle!” and here we
are!
Reality
As if Thorben could predicted already, no chairs needed! And
it’s not so much different from what he expected and reality 😉
Happy happy happy birthday to you Thorben! I’m so glad I can call you my brother, thank you for joining the Spartan exercise last year where I first met you (even though none of us did or will do the real Spartan haha), thank you for all the world cup game that we watched, thank you for all the steak and other food that you cooked for me and the list of thanks to you going on and on and on. There is no words can describe how I genuinely glad that I know you and simply put, you deserve all the best!
P.S: this is not some shitty lame bday wish like when you don’t know what to write to that bday person and just write “wish you all the best” hahaha biatch please 😉
It was a chill Wednesday morning so far, I was reading and replying some emails, looking on a wechat group about house, second hand stuff etc until one group really caught my attention due to many chats happening which is the one and only Hungover Games group. I was a bit curious because it wasn’t 12 PM yet so it’s definitely not a sign up time but what was the hype is all about? Turns out it’s was…….. #drum-roll and facepalm!
HAHA! SERIOUSLY?!?! Parent and Child Category?
This is about obstacle race in Moganshan the one that we and a bunch of archery people participated last year and they have it again on April and they use the picture from last year to put it as an advertisement for this year Xiaker’s race. They have 3 categories now (I think last year they only had 2) elite, recreational and parent and child hahaha! And what on earth somebody will put the picture of me and Thorben to fall on parent-child categories? 😉 LMAO!
Thank you Nikita that suddenly posted it on the group, I was laughing so hard and also thanks to Gigi that found it on the first place, you saw it right that girl on the picture is me hihi 😉
But still how it is possible? My very handsome Freddoy made an “analysis” if Thorben had me when he was 16 then it’s possible hahaha! but still I don’t look like 16, well if I do… it means I look 10+ years younger than I actually am 😉 #thanks to Yves Rocher cosmetics haha!
Not being over confident but I admit that on that picture I look younger than my age but still not as young to fall on child category hahaha and Thorben is really really impossible to look as old as a father haha!
Anyway, I found it very funny, thanks guys, you made my day and just like I mentioned before, something randomly funny always going on when you have a 500 crazy people on one group and this group is always worth to check 😉
And so it went to 12PM Tim sent a sticker saying “SILENCE” and you know what time is it? sign up time 😉
Two weeks ago the nerdies was very excited to have our Spanish Chef-Diego as he would make us The Valencia Paella, the dish that he knows the most, even Sara doesn’t count as someone that knows how to make the real Paella 😉
The grand plan of the Paella started at CNY and Diego kept saying that we need to have the special pan with the diameter of 40cm, special stuff blablabla and Gio always said “Don’t worry about small stuff.. It’s easy to arrange, 小问题” and with the help of Thomas that miraculously order the things that we need the most which is stove and pan from Taobao where Thomas doesn’t even read any Chinese, I’m sure Nora helped him hahaha
Within the week, the equipment was “there” and I guess on D-day which is Sunday morning Diego reveal what we need for the Paella, and there was many conversation about who will bring what but in the end Sara was our unsung hero, she voluntarily bought all the ingredients 😉 up until…. when we were 3 hours away from the dinner plan, Thomas couldn’t find the connector for the special stove and the tube 🙁 so what did they do?
I was so sure there was about more than 100 chats on the group and I couldn’t even follow it anymore. Gio and Fiona checked from the shop near his home if there is any connector, Fiona suggested Thomas to go to B&Q to buy the connector there but due to Thomas doesn’t speak Chinese so he need to carry the stove as well to make sure that he didn’t buy the wrong connector. If B&Q doesn’t have it then no place will have it. Besides B&Q Thomas also wonder to several small shops on mobike with the stove ahahah 😀 and….. after wondering around the answer was a NO! We don’t have the connector!
Then how about the dinner? are we still going to make it? so Thomas went to Metro and he said “The decision needs to make now” haha therefore we postponed the Paella night and Thomas bought other ingredients and he became the cook for that night! wohoooo he made A Big Pot Chilli Con Carne 😉 and there it go, out of the sudden, potluck dinner was arranged and it went smooth! Sara brought cheese and Iberian chorio, Gio brought baguette, Fiona brought dessert and I brought Marina’s homemade waffle! Claudia kept taking out the chili from the pot so it wasn’t too spicy 😉
And right 30 mins before we suppose to arrive, Thomas found the connector on a different package from the 快递 guy pfffff after all this drama turns out the connector was at his home the whole time hahaha he just didn’t open it #facepalm!
Thomas said he never cut this much onions on his life ever and yes that’s a googles for cutting the onions hahaha
But the night went well, the food was good! and all of us were happy as always 😉
Well, I should say we learnt from the experience hahaha we became more prepared, rabbit was ordered for our Paella the following week 😉 and this time Nora made tiramisu dessert!
Diego started to cook since 6PM and we started to eat I guess at 21:15 hahaha and I had a very important role that night! which is to taste if it’s already salty enough 😉 this is the key role guys! neck to neck with the cook 😉 hahaha
Hola Paella!
Gracias Diego!!! I like the Paella, it was my first time eating rabbit and surprisingly I like it, I also like the burnt rice!
