Rest of Today

We went out to visit our friends for tea, our friends are also the local organisers for the Host visitors, and they were hosting a student from Taiwan, so with our two students (from Germany and China) we had a total of four countries represented at the dinner!! As always it was busy, but extremely friendly at our friends house. They have two grown up sons, both of whom were there (one with fiancee and one with friend), friend's mother in law lives with them, and they have a daughter similar age to Drama Teen. It was a FULL house :-) And that isn't even counting the dogs and cats lol.

Dinner was a help yourself buffet style meal, which suits everyone best as you can just grab what you enjoy best. Me and Little Prince shared a plate and he ate quite a lot, he wasn't too keen on the spicey sausages but enjoyed sampling his way round the cheese board. Friend had even put chicken dippers on for my resident fuss pot - Drama Teen :-)

Little Prince excelled himself once dessert was served!! Friend told him she was serving trifle - he went to the fridge with her to find out what this was, and was VERY impressed with the enormous looking bowl!! The only space free on the table was directly in front of him, so that's where Friend put the bowl. Little Prince looked at it "I'll need a spoon please" he said!! Being the enterprising sort, he then grabbed the large salad serving spoon and said he'd use that!!! We persuaded him to try a small bowl though. He ate all that. He then had some chocolate gateau. He ate all that. He then ran round the house for a while, before announcing to Friend's husband that he was still hungry. He was given a slice of beetroot cake (its not as foul as it sounds, I had some and it was delicious). He ate most of that. The trouble was he was sat at the table on his own, and I didn't go and check on him for a few moments!! I found him with trifle custard and cream all over his fingers, and the trifle sculpted with 'tram lines' !!! I suppose it was WAY too tempting too leave sat next to a hungry little boy lol.

Our next task was to take a photograph of Little Prince's class cuddly toy with the three students. Each child in Little Prince's class takes home the cuddly toy and has to write about what they did together, and stick photos in the accompanying book. This posed quite a challenge for us as, due to security concerns, Little Prince can't be in photographs that go out of our possession. We managed to get a photo of him and the cuddly toy playing on the computer - so he is in the photo, but only the back of his head can be seen!! I think that and cuddly toy with his friend's from around the world should be ok??

We had done the unthinkable on the way out, we had forgotten to bring Blankie!! So once Little Prince started getting tired, he got cranky that he hadn't got Blankie and we had to get packed up and come home. Drama Teen and Friend's daughter had spent the evening playing on Sims 2 on the computer and had great fun, I think they would have liked us to stay longer!! We got Little Prince to bed as soon as we got home and haven't heard a peep out of him since!! Drama Teen has been playing on her own game of Sims 2 and we haven't heard a peep out of her either lol.

Fraulein, student guest and Mr Messy are watching a scary movie - so I'm hiding away on my computer!! And will probably sneak off for an early night soon, and keep my fingers crossed that my two legged alarm clock doesn't go off to early tomorrow lol.