Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....

Party night to bring in the new year. Question; Where did the last one go?

Joan had spent some time preparing food for tonight and the guests also contributed with things like a very intoxicating sherry trifle and of course a supply of booze. We had been out and bought a locally reared, 5KG turkey from Chapter 1, an Alsancak restaurant. This actually turned out as 7.5Kg so we will be eating it for a little while yet. Have to say though that it was extremely nice and moist, so this is something to remember if we want one next year.

We started off the evening with some drinks and some games. The first was Tumble which you all probably recognise. The tower was looking quite precarious when Christopher finally pulled out the fatal block. Sandy had also brought her ./photos/2007/12/24.htm">Champagne tower game, which thankfully uses plastic glasses. I think we should play this outside on the terrace table in the summer, then we could fill the glasses with champagne or maybe vodka so that each successful pull from the tower means you have to down it in one and if the tower falls you have to down the leftovers. Could be a good recipe for a very happy party.....anyway well done Sandy for tumbling the last few glasses.
The next game, after we had lined the stomachs with lots of good food, was skittles. By opening up the doors to the hallway we managed to create Skittle alley with the basic rule, no throwing, we value the glass in our front door. By the way, not everybody has a slight lean to the right in this pic. maybe just the camera man!

At midnight we all went outside to hopefully watch all the fireworks, which we usually see from the Merit Crystal Cove hotel. They must have been on an economy drive this year as there were none. Joan and I had bought some huge half meter long party poppers, so we let these off around our driveway. Who needs the Merit fireworks. What we do need though is a small gang tomorrow morning to clear up the mess outside.

By around 1 a.m we had sort of got to the state of Oh dear! in some cases, but a great night was had by all.

TO ALL OF YOU OUT THERE READING THIS. HAPPY NEW YEAR AND MAY 2008 BE EVERYTHING YOU WISH IT TO BE AND ABOVE ALL BE HEALTHY AND HAVE FUN AND JOY TOGETHER WITH FRIENDS.

See you in 2008. Frank and Joan.