The rest of our week/weekend has been pretty lazy with Dan on antibiotics trying to fight whatever it is that he has. We're still unsure if its strep or some sort of canker sore but he seems to be in good spirits and doesn't have any new symptoms other than a nagging sore throat, so I suppose that's good.
We've been on quite the movie kick lately. With the American TV season coming to a close, we've quickly run out of DVRed episodes to watch in the evenings. Thus, we have starting going through several movies a week. Friday night was no different as we watched To Kill a Mockingbird and the last movie in the Alien series. I made some chicken chili and we just relaxed to wind down from the week.
Saturday brought more of the same. We got up early (for no particular reason) and leisurely had breakfast, worked out, and watched some more movies. Afternoon naps followed by half a hockey game prepared us for what would be an eventful dinner party at Hannah and Robin's. We went over around 7pm and dinner was me, Dan, Hannah, Robin, Annabel and Peter... the British couple we met over dinner a couple weekends ago. We had cocktails and then sat down to dinner.
Hannah made enough food to have probably fed 20 people. Suffice to say they will have leftovers for almost the whole week. There was a butternut squash soup starter, then an eggplant parmesan dish, a chicken dish, two types of potatoes, and two kinds of rice. Carb-loading at its finest. It was probably for the best as the completion of dinner brought champagne, beer, limoncello... and, wait for it, Annabel's karaoke machine.
It took about 3 songs for me to realize that this particular machine actually scores you after each song. It took about the same number of songs for Hannah to realize that it doesn't seem to score you on your singing abilities as she started to employ a singing strategy that sounded like a screaming, dying cat. But hey, it was working for her, she was getting 95-97 points per song and since this had turned into a guys vs girls duel, Annabel and I were quite fine with it, even if we were laughing most of the time.
Many great tunes were sung (poorly) and the clock passed midnight. As everyone was getting tired, we decided on one last duel to determine the winners. The chosen song was Edelweiss from the Sound of Music. I can safely say I didn't recall it so I was off the hook on this one. Robin and Peter sang it for the men's team and got a respectable 95 points. However, Hannah and the dying cat voice nailed a solid 97 points in her version of Edelweiss and the girls took the crown on the evening.
All in all we had a great night.
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