Saturday Night

Party for Steve’s birthday started on Saturday around 7.30pm with a few beers and wine and went on till 3am, until eventually when people not able to realize what they were doing and ended up in their respective beds.

The party started with a nice 3 course dinner. Paula arranged some pasta for main course for vegetarians. The hotel staff did quite an arrangement by setting up candles, wine glasses, cooling all the drinks we had purchased, arranging the projector for our slideshows and the sofas on the terrace for drinking.

I was wearing the slippers from the room and Morgana and Sabine found it amusing. Coincidentally Mario also wore the same kind of slippers but changed to shoes when they made fun of him.

Volker created a nice slide show and projected on the wall with solo pics of every one and some tourist spots in Mexico we visited in last two weeks. Steve played the guitar with Tracy singing with him. When everyone was drunk a lot, we played songs from different countries. Volker’s effort of compiling this album with 3 songs from each language of the participants was quite a hit. Louis liked the “Nagada Nagada” and “Morya Morya” and tried to dance bhangda and Marathi Ganapati festival style dance with us.

The deal was not to post pictures of anything that happened after 10pm. But actually we took quite a less amount of photos (I don’t think anyone was in right mind to do that!) and most of them were alright. Nothing to be censored!

14 of us finished about 3 tequila bottles, several boxes of beers, red and white wine. We had much more with us…I am sure people are gonna have one more bash soon to finish them… vodka and more beers. Sophia volunteered to make a few cocktails which turned out to be popular. Sridevi tasted some tequila to everyone’s surprise.

 Michelada - beer with spicy Mexican sauce

Tequila

People slowly started deserting the party land when they were drunk than they expected and could not take it further. I went to the room around 2pm. I heard later that people went to warm water pool later.

The hang over next day is something you don’t want but can’t avoid. I woke up at 9.45 and went to have some breakfast only because it closes at 10. After having some food and coffee, I felt a little better and sleeping till noon again, made me fresh back again. People spent their Sunday in shopping which has been pending for last two weeks now.