Hens and Chicks

So once the snow had finally melted it was time to start thinking about the wedding, and to start with my UK hen's night. Now I had perhaps cruelly put my best friend Lisa in charge of organising this, I say cruelly as unfortunately she couldn't come to the wedding, so it seemed a little unfair. However if we were getting married in the UK she would have been there with bells on and she did a fantastic job of organising a wonderful night out.

So the night started in a lovely cocktail bar in Oxford, one I have always wanted to try but in the two years we lived there I never got round to it. There were a few people from work, Lisa and Amanda (my HK teacher) and it was a great crowd. Following that it was on to a Spanish bar for some sangria, somehow we managed to get there for happy hour and got two jugs for the price of one, but we only had time to drink one so Lisa kindly gave it to two ladies who looked like they had already had two jugs! (based on the number of jugs on the bar where they were not the state they were in). So the reason we didn't have time to finish the jugs was that Lisa had made a booking at Yo Sushi! Yum!!!! We all settled in and then the quiz began, Lisa had emailed Peter and asked him a few questions, they asked me and I had to say the same thing that Peter had. For every question I got wrong I had to do a forfeit, but I didn't get too many wrong so everyone decided that I should just do some forfeits anyway (how unfair I say!)

After dinner it was on to complete the forfeits and have a bit of a dance. Of course it is tradition that we don't say too much more about what actually happened, however Peter managed to steal my camera and look at all the photos before I had had a chance, so he has a fair idea what happened!

When I returned from the wedding, Sue had collated all the photos into a lovely little book as a memento of the evening. Let's just say, I had a fireman's lift from a guy outside a kebab van, I got asked an awful lot if I was on my hen's night (my standard answer was "no I dress like this all the time"), I was in a club that a guy got bottled (lot of police, ambulance, etc), and I finally found out why UK policeman have hats the shape they are (to keep their sandwiches in apparently!) And I stayed out until 2am ( a rule set by Lisa) and it felt good to know I could still do it even though I was well out of practice.