My Cocktail Night ... Morning

Actually it was more Damian and Kathryn's Cocktail Night, but hey ... that's the rules. They invited us over to their house in Parramatta, which is a 20min train ride from the city. Marc wanted to take the ferry up the river, but the rest of the bunch was just too lazy. On the other hand we put quite some effort into getting good cocktails for that night, what involved taking up contact with my cocktail bar owning family members. And they again did a good job writing up a list with ingredients and quite a few cocktail recipes we could do with that. Well, we had real problems finding all that, the juices were harder to get than the spirits, but after cutting back some of our expectations and wished we finally made it (with the help of Kathryn and her rediscovered car) to reach the (btw. huge) appartement of our hosts.
There was quite a bunch of people there, Lanbo and her spouse David, Joachim and Mani, Marc, Sander, Nathan, a friend from uni, and of course Damian and Kathryn.
And so we did our best to get everybody satisfied with drinks in their hands all the time. I got hard on the blender, for the shaker turned out to be leaking and we needed bigger amounts anyway. It was very relaxed, we started playing card and boardgames and the time appeared to just rush by. Suddenly we had to decide on staying or leaving for the last train - guess what happened.



We talked and played on ... yeah, right, also had some more drinks and started to play a card game that has some strange side effects. We avoided the hardest parts, but still ended up serving Damian a beef drink. Beef drink? Ah, gonna introduce that, when I am back. And I have some more ideas for weired punishments thanks to Nathan. If winning the party means staying (awake) longer than everybody else I guess it was me who did it. Not that I was competitive. But in the end the European team left for the (I reckon) fifth train and it was past seven when I finally reached Newtown. Didn't manage to get up before 1600 that Sunday after calling some people before going to bed.