Lambros' birthday party

Sunday 9^th November

A busy day as Lambros is holding his birthday party this afternoon and I have agreed to help Maria prepare the food.  So the morning was taken up with preparing tuna filling for the choux buns she made, egg fillings for the boiled eggs (that we hoped to make to look like penguins and then thought better of it hence mixing the egg yolk with finely chopped onion and seasonings etc.), frying meat balls and finally in the late afternoon chicken schnitzels.  Only 8 school friends turned up as the others were attending a wedding or some one else’s party as there were a lot of village children celebrating their birthdays this week.  The boys seemed to enjoy themselves and there was certainly plenty to eat but they were not that hungry as some had already eaten at home whilst others had gone to the souvlaki place before arriving at ‘Creta Spirit’. Still as the afternoon wore on and the boys were doing a lot of running around, especially in the treasure hunt game that Lambros had worked on thinking up clues that the boys in their teams had to find before revealing the whereabouts of the treasure box full of confectionary, the food began to disappear. I guess Maria could have fed the 5,000! It was dark before parents came to collect their offspring and stay for coffee, cake and nibbles.  One lady brought her young son who enjoyed playing with the over friendly, placid, white stray cat that seems to have made itself at home in the last few days. One of the clues in the treasure hunt referred to a cat and this stray was quite happy for the boys to look her over thinking a clue was attached to the animal. It wasn’t.  I said my goodbyes and came home to prepare our evening meal of guess what – meatballs!

 

Keith had enjoyed a peaceful day even Theo only stayed 10 minutes for his usual coffee and ashtray