What a Party!

We woke up around 2 this afternoon. Our little family tend to be sleeper inners but we had a fabulous reason to snooze so late. We threw an Argentinean party last night.

Yesterday we worked our tushes off prepping the house for our first party of grand proportions in this house. We've thrown big parties before but never for an international crowd. So John hung plastic covers around the terrace and Lilian scrubbed the entire patio/parilla (BBQ) area. The girls and I set everything else up as well as prepped the food that wasn't coming from outside the house. Jake and Buddy stayed out from underfoot.

Everything was ready by the designated start up time of 8:30. By 9:30 pretty much everyone was here. I scooted the kids over to our friend's house, Lisette decided she'd stay home and be my "kitchen help" and thank God she did. We had about 50 people show, food and drink flowed beautifully - other than an excess of chicken we had the perfect amount of food. Our chocolate fountain was a raging success...again. Best party investment we've made! Our asado guy took pity on me as I raced around keeping the food bowls and sangria pitcher full and made me a lomo (steak) sandwich.

We sang, we danced and we stayed up until 5 AM. John and I had figured it would go til about 3 so when the dancing started at around 1:30 we sucked it up and joined in the fun. By the time the last of our guests headed out the door at 4:30, my feet and back and legs were screaming for unconsciousness. I spent 30 minutes cleaning up some and then gave up to the call of the mattress.

Lilian came in this morning so by the time we fell out of bed the house was looking pretty damn good. John got downstairs first and turned on the coffee pot. Yeah!

Now there's delicious smelling chicken soup cooking on the stove, the dishes are mostly clean and/or put away. The coffee pot is still on and the chocolate fountain is running. Definitely a great party!