Friday Evening And We Were Off To Mike And Riza's

first stop, the market, for some fish and things, even though Riza has been cooking all day, the girls still like to "snack" before or after eating,

the market was as busy as ever,

then it was time for Riza to receive her new fishing rod from Diana, the traffic was truly terrible, over an hour for a 15 minuet journey, all day yesterday and today loads of helicopters over head, even so loads of roads closed, but we made it in the end,

then more cooking!

I am a complete stranger to kitchens which most probably explains why I have never seen one of these before, a few Saturdays ago Mr. Tony and Mike were explaining this cooker and how good it was, well it certainly was when Mr. Tony brings a cooked chicken with him and it worked really well last night! as all of this was going on I went outside to look behind the truck, a dog frighten Diana so I went round to help her around the back of the truck when we arrived, as we past the truck we upset a load of bees, so I just had to go back and take a picture of them,

honey bees in a bush,

not a huge number of them, but enough to keep me at a safe distance!

then Precil and Jay arrived,

Riza had prepared mushrooms and pork with orange juice, as well as beef caldereta, a Filipino dish, both were delicious!

heaven knows how to fold a napkin, but Riza made a great display of these,

and we start the meal,

at Jil's request the cat got a hug from all of us,

after the meal the girls carried on "snacking"

whilst we had a drink and a game of cribbage,

and another cuddle for the cat,

and from me as well,

then it was karaoke time,

and we all had to have a go!

the favorite was the "weema way" song, the lion sleeps tonight,

then ice cream to sooth our vocal cords,

and then the girls turn,

and a little rest, a really great evening, many thanks to Mike and Riza, see you all later today!