We slept fairly well last night with the exception of an annoying bird that perched itself outside our window at 4:00am and didn't leave. We didn't get much sleep listening to "Tswee!!!!! Tswee!!!!!!" every three seconds. Jenny finally convinced me to go outside and throw rocks at the bird until it got the message to stay away. Unfortunately when I went outside I managed to set off the house alarm, also waking Kingsley and Karin! After that we finished our nights sleep with one ear listening out for the annoying bird. Karen and Kingsley woke us up at about 8:30am and asked if we wanted to come with them to a local craft fair. We decided we would join them because we didn't really have anything else planned. We left the house in Kingsley's truck and stopped along the way to pick up Kingsley's grandson Logan, who is two and gets to spend every Saturday with his grandfather.
We arrived at the car fair and it looked promising. There was a very talented marimba band playing just inside the gates and there seemed to be endless stalls. None of us had eaten any breakfast so we stopped at one of the first food stalls and bought 6 pancakes for everyone to share. They were very good! Upon finishing our food we discovered that the craft fair wasn't all that it promised. The stalls tended to be drastically overpriced and spent most of the time meeting endless friends of Karen and Kingsley's, so many so that we couldn't remember anybody's name! Jenny and I didn't buy anything from the craft fair and we all eventually departed to head into town and drop of some water samples from their pool at a lab for testing. At this point we started throwing around ideas for lunch and eventually we decided to go and eat at Mokolodi lodge.
When we arrived for lunch we met another huge group of their friends and once again forgot everyone's name instantly :). We sat down at a table for about 15 peope and ordered drinks. Jenny had a frozen margarita, or as the waitress called it "the cold one" and I had a castle. It turned out that it wasn't frozen, instead it was just cold! Never mind :) The longer that we sat and sipped our drinks the more apparent it became that our lunch was going to turn into a full-day affair. I had another castle, and another, and another and another. By this time I decided I should stop drinking if I wanted to stay on my feet and luckily our food arrived at about the same time. I had a dish called Mokolodi pasta and Jenny had a carbonara pasta. We had been chatting for the duration of the gathering with Adam and Kate who were near our age and found out that they were going to a pirates of the Caribbean themed party at the Gaborone yacht club and there were a few extra tickets for us. We arranged with Kingsley that one of the guards from his house would drive us to town and pick us up from the party before our friends departed for the afternoon.
Once the large table of people had left we found ourselves sharing drinks with several other groups of the Dobrowsky's friends at the lodge. We had a look at the newly built coffee shop and had even more drinks. At this point Jenny and I were starting to have trouble staying awake because of how long we had been out and our early start this morning, and we glad to finally leave the lodge at 18:30! This was about the time that we had intended to arrive at the pirates party, so we stopped back at the house and had a quick shower before calling Felix to drive us to the yacht club. Along the way we stopped at Jeff Dunlop Jones' house quite close to the lodge to pick up Adam, Kate and Jeff. From there we proceeded into town to the yacht club. When we arrived it was clear that only a small portion of the guests decided to dress as pirates but even so the vibe at the club was still good. We went to the bar to order our first drink and found out that everyone at the party got a free vodka and lemonade when they arrived!
Our free drink started our night off on a good note and the drinks kept flowing; including tequila, coffee vodka, caramel vodka and more beers and ciders. The music also got progressively better as the night passed, moving from oldies to more recent songs that everyone there knew the lyrics to. Jenny ordered us a burger and chips and wound up getting an extra free plate of chips when the order came, just what we needed considering the amount of drinks. About this time Jenny also moved on to drinking vodka redbull to stay awake! We carried on dancing and acting like drunken idiots until we decided we had had enough just after 10pm. At this point we phoned Felix to come and fetch the two of us, as Jeff assured us that Felix wouldn't mind making a second trip to pick the rest of them up. Felix took a bit longer than we hoped and arrived at 11:00pm, but by that stage we had been drinking water and felt brilliant on the way home, a good thing because of how atrociously bumpy the road was to the yacht club! Once we arrived home we headed straight to bed, thankful it was still fairly early in the evening :)
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