Dinner Party

We hosted a dinner for the various and sundry folk doing things Russian around here. There's a reason more people don't do dinner parties much these days. I spent the whole day preparing and the 'meat' was Ikea meatballs so not too labor intensive. We were twelve so we used pretty much every dish in the house. A shocking amount of wine was drunk and thank god Craig got up before I did and made serious inroads on the detritus. Just enough time to recover today before Halloween festivities begin. The trick or treating here has to happen today because we can't have that sort of thing on the lord's day. Haven't bought any candy yet. Both kids are planning to dress up and be those embarrassingly too old trick or treaters tonight. Craig's band is playing its 10th annual Halloween party. Pictures tomorrow I promise.