Great party!

What a great party we went to last night. We went to our friends Carina (my miracle working physiotherapist), Stephen and Carlene’s house for dinner and there were lovely friends of theirs there as well as Laird, Marita and me. I love Afrikaans people — they are so willing to laugh and have a terrific time. And they all have such large, wonderful laughs — really engaging. We had an offal stew, a very traditional Afrikaans dish, chicken and borwors (sausages grilled perfectly) and LOTS of wine. Well, I don’t know about anyone else, but I had LOTS of wine! I was actually surprised that I was able to go to sleep after so much wine. I don’t know whether it is age or altitude, but I have had a couple of nights drinking lots of wine without any ill effects — and I didn’t make anymore of an ass of myself than normal, so that’s always good. Or at least I think not. Could be wrong of course because. . . did I mention I had LOTS of wine? Anyway, the dinner was scrumptious and the company divine. Speaking of wine, SANDY, pay attention: August 31 is International Cabernet Sauvignon Day, so all you wino friends, stock up. I told most of my drinking friends, but I remember you said you don’t look at your email, Sandy, so I’m passing on the message to you, and to anyone else I forgot to inform of this important date. GET PREPARED NOW — there might be a run of cab at the store and you won’t want to miss out celebrating this best of all possible “days”.
We’ve closed out the weekend and tomorrow we are off to Stillbaai (unless a cold front comes in, which looks like it might be) to feed and pet the eels. Oh, how soft they are! You won’t believe it. They eat chicken livers. Just think how exotic chicken livers must be to eels. I wonder what they think they are eating — do you suppose that every unknown taste tastes like chicken (it’s what people always say about things like snake and alligator and wild meat — I have absolutely no idea what eels say about exotic tastes), even chicken livers, whether you know the concept of “chicken” or not? It’s a curious world, isn’t it? On that note, I’m going to end, finish my Amarula (god I love this stuff~!) and get ready for bed. Good night, friends.