Estonian xmas party

As I had to spend my first Christmas away from home :( I decided to submerge myself into Estoniannes even only for just one night. Hence the official Estonian Christmas party in London.

When we got there half an hour later than the official start, but there was still half an hour left for the entertainment program to begin, the main room was already full! :O So we were forced to go into the second, brightly lit room where the buffet and kids santa corner was. The only real downside to that was the fact that we kind of missed the whole entertainment all together... We could see the stage through the wide open doors but couldn't really hear what was going on...

As soon as we sat down we went to grab some (proper) food, yum :) to me at least :D Mr. Special whined about nearly every single thing on the plate :D Therefore the bigger my surprise later at the food shop stall where he went full loco and bought two carrier bags full of stuff (brown lemonade?!?!). But hey I got to eat my moose sausage sandwiches for the next week so I was great. He also partook in a little raffle and won a home styling magazine that was 3 years old? Pointless...

And that was about it... I'm not disappointed with the night (omg I even saw someone there from Aber!) but I wish we could've been sat in the main room with the stage to be able to enjoy the night even more plus maybe had someone else to talk to as well...

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

Remember remember

the 5th of November...

yes I do realise it's actually the end of December... Wow does time fly fast or what?!

So for the first time in a couple of years the 5th November fireworks have fallen on my day off :) Which meant I can actually go to the main display :) Last year we had to go to the local school's one a day earlier.

We were prepared, as this was the official town's bonfire night we expected a lot of stalls etc, something to do. We finally found the food queue :) hot dogs, burgers etc. Mucked about a little bit beforehand in the bar queue and then kind of decided to split and I went to join the food queue, stepped (maybe a little rudely) in front of a lady with a buggy. Hey we got there at the same time just from different directions.. Waited ages... About twenty people in front of us... Until we noticed that something's weird with the burgers being handed out... they were in hot dog rolls... and we hadn't seen proper hot dog sausages for a while now...  

And guess what. We got the LAST burger!!!! WTF there was still about twenty people behind us waiting for the same thing. Ever heard of announcing? (now I felt especially sorry for the lady behind me...). Who invites a whole town to a bonfire night and only provides food for the first half hour? The main display an hour away and crowds still coming... Someone made a booboo.

Then the last hour we just waited in the pitch dark... for the train to go past. We were at the rugby pitch right next to the tracks and fireworks would interfere with train service so had to be planned for the opportune moment. There was like one stall selling crap but that was it, not even music or a big BONFIRE! All of a sudden that little school's bonfire night last year seemed to be much better value...

But when the fireworks finally started WOW. One of the best I've seen definitely, seemed to go on for ages and the crowed really loved it as well, making woooooooooouu sounds for the big bangs :) I was not expecting that level of professional fireworks :D

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...