Well, October is here, and with that comes birth month. Poor Luis had to wait all the way until October 2nd for his first birthday event. As we will be away for the actual day, he wanted to have a little poolside party to celebrate. Sebastian loves a pool party and also firmly believes that people need more than one celebration. Despite some showers and threatening black skies, the weather mostly held, and we had a lovely celebration. Or rather, pre-celebration.
Sebastian had an action-packed weekend planned. Saturday he was meant to have his first away football tournament at another school. Then a birthday party, then Gaelic football on Sunday and all got cancelled. The rain started Friday and just never stopped. I have never seen anything like it here in Bangkok. In Phuket, yes, but not here. And everything started flooding. It was quite unreal. Therefore, it was a weekend at home. Love having indoor play for days. And now back to online learning while Bangkok gets cleaned up.
As you can imagine, the stacks were high last night. We went out to play darts, boys vs girls. The first game went to the boys, which shook me up a little bit. Luckily, I was able to calm down and make things right in the following two games. And Eliska and I came out as the champs, which was pretty much always the way it was going to end up. It was a delightful night and our last night with them both before they left on their travels. We will miss them loads, especially Sebastian, who loved having them here.
No stay is complete unless Sebastian has taken you to Tony's for dinner. He was super excited to take his new besties, Eliska and Henry, there. He was even more impressed when they both ordered his favourite vodka pasta. It was hard to get him to tone down the showing off, especially as he beat them in Connect Four several times. But we still had a nice time. Bruce also came, which was great. He is no stranger to Tony's, but it was good to get him back there. We then returned home for more Virus. Sebastian is going to miss his new besties when they leave us in a few days.
I did not have high hopes Sunday at 3 a.m.; I had a late night Saturday, not by choice and was not in a great mindset when I woke up. To add insult to injury, it was raining. I knew it would be highly competitive, and there were only two age groups. But I went and was so happy I did. I did not end up on the podium, but I improved my time by 6 minutes compared to the same race last year. Hopefully by another 6 minutes in 2027! And BRUCE arrived; I am so happy. He had a stroke in Cambodia, and I have been very worried. Got him here now and will get him back to health. We then spent a nice Sunday showing our guests our favourite Virus game.
On Friday, Fraser left a message for Sebastian asking if he wanted to sleep over on Saturday night, as we were having dinner there. Sebastian responded, 'Maybe, if his Mum would let him and then asked me to pretend I said no. I was a little relieved; I do not want him leaving the nest just yet. But then on Saturday he woke up saying he wanted to. I packed his bag but was pretty sure he would end up leaving when I did. But he didn't; in fact, he tried to kick me out even earlier. I was happy/sad for sure! I was thankful it was with people we know and love, but still, he did not need to be with his MUM! Heartbreaking!!
We were all so happy to have Eliska and Henry arrive from the United Kingdom. Sebastian the most excited and has been showing off for 48 long hours. They are starting a 5-6-month Southeast Asia adventure and are starting off in Bangkok. Eliska is the daughter of my very good friends Martina and Phil in Bruton. Both Martina and Phil were so kind to me while living in Bruton. They were actually more like family, I enjoyed vegetarians dinners every Friday (made my a butcher I may add) and our dogs were dating. I am super happy to be able to repay that kindness now. Well, and also because I love them. An added bonus is I quickly discovered that Martina has not shared her wine cub days with Eliska. As I was sure this must have been an oversight, I have shown them the calendar and have so many more stories to share.
