Yesterday we had Romeo's party. And it was a big one! We had invited over 60 people. Due to holidays and illness not everybody could come, but eventually about 50 people turned up! And that is quite a lot for our
small house! Neighbours, family, friends, people we hadn't seen in months (sometimes even years). All came.
Weatherforecasts for sunday were good at the start of the week (we expected the worst,
remember this?) but on saturday our luck changed. A 50% chance of rain and thunder and extremely warm and damp. We had made preparations for everything but rainprotection. So in a hurry we installed a big screen. Some ten minutes later water came down as if someone had openend a huge shower over Alphen. I went out to borrow an umbrella and placed it in the backyard.
Just before the first guests arrived at 1 o'clock the rain stopped and a little sunlight came through the black clouds. From then on it stayed mostly dry.
Everybody ate cake, drank coffee and whine and beer. Then bosnian specialty cevapcici were handed out. My dad, a friend and I fired up the grill and bbq'ed saté, shaslicks, fish and shrimp. A grand feast! :-)
Romeo had a great time but was - what a surprise - extremely tired. He could not sleep in the afternoon. And he could not sleep in the evening. So he went to bed around 11 o'clock... One year old and already a latesleeper :-).
Today I saw a van passing by on the A4 highway. It had text written on it's side: Mobile Wedding Service. Wow! I thought. How can you get married in one of those things (the van wasn't that big). Or how does it work? Can you get married anywhere you like? Do they come to your house? My imagination fired up...
