Wet Wednesday

Autumn is staking its claim pretty thoroughly now but today's crappy weather was alleviated by girlie frühstück on a scale we've never before achieved, not that the over abundance of people wanting to pay for breakfast went down well with the owners of the restaurant...

It's a popular place, you have to book weeks in advance, so we do...the table we'd been allocated when we booked last is up on a balcony, it's a great long table that can seat 14, easily, more if they had more chairs...so we turned up and told her we were probably a few more than the eight we'd booked for (there were 11 on the FB invite saying yes, plus a child whose school decided to shut for the day and a new expat someone brought along*) You'd have thought we'd told her we were bringing our own food such was the reaction...she had planned to put a random couple at the end of our table - which wouldn't have been pleasant for them (fortunately they called and cancelled - bet they got a right ear bending for that) because we can be quite loud en masse, all trying to talk and be heard at the same time, as you do when you're enjoying yourself with friends.

Anyway, it all went well, we all had enough food (don't know about the other people in the restaurant!) and gallons litres of coffee, exchanged birrhday gifts (we were celebrating three birthdays that fall within a week or so of each other) and plotted new events.

I love my girlfriends.

* we're always welcoming to new faces