So a week later, on sat the 20th we all started getting ready, in the evening I started frying some chicken pakodas (check my recipe blog for the recipe ) which we were going to take with us as snacks, a quarter of it was eaten even before it could be packed away ( courtesy hubby and daughter, who's comments were when are you gonna make these again ....ha ha that brings on a good feeling!)
Anyways we reached the dance an hour late, ( i was frying pakodas remember) well am glad we did arrive late coz the party started late because of mass...see am good with timing my entrance hehehhehe!!
So walked in to the dance to see an elderly man was the DJ....to my shock horror .......I was like jeez this is gonna be one crazy boring nite, so out came the bottle of bailey's and we sat down to drinking and eating and mucking around, the music starts.........what was that song again??? never heard it before! OMG what was this nite gonna turn to....can we have dinner and leave (thoughts running through my mind) When the music turned " dancing queen" started blaring from the speakers right near us, and that was my cue to get on the floor so as usual Venu and me , up jumped and were shaking our booty right in front of the DJ....guess that did it ....and some good old numbers followed next.....so there we were ripping it up!! A good hour into dancing when a break was announced and it was time for my first glass of bailey's to be downed...........boy was I thirsty or what??
Munching on the snacks, downing some Bailey's, mucking around, checking out the dresses and the heels and the people around!! An announcement " time for some games and raffles" so here goes, our kids were called up to draw some lucky ticket numbers...one by one numbers called, people came up , shaking their hips, big smiles on their faces, to collect their prizes....whilst we're shouting out our numbers, momentarily my attention deviates to Venu when I hear my hubby shouting across the table, don't we have no.150?...and am like...yeah I think so....and suddenly realisation dawned.......we won a prize...woo hoo....a nice bottle of wine and a pretty picture frame!! not bad eh!!
Then comes the games, we had to dance and when a number was called we had to form a group of that many....ha...that was gonna be tough.....so yeah we danced and danced, cheated and danced and were one of the last 2 groups left on the floor.....yes, we were one of them ofcourse!.....when they called group of 5, we were 6 , should have been 5 really, you cant call a 4 year old a whole person,can you? He should be like quarter or maybe no number...(in our opinion ) would have been fun to win another prize...so the ladies won in the next group as they had 5 which included a 2 yr old...hmnnnn we had fun......cheating, laughing and dancing our asses off, pulling random people into our group. That was a better prize I reckon "having fun"
There were a couple of other games but not as fun as the one above and then we had dinner.......really nice dinner. There were puri's, pea pulao, a beef curry, some salad, shami kebab and a little sweet. For the price it was really good and the best part was it tasted delicious!!
So back to the tables it was, enjoying the taste of a yummy home made meal. Had this little bowl of the yummiest green tamarind pickle....( put it on my shopping list for this week, enjoyed it so much). Had a glance of the people present, didn't know most of them.......all Anglo Indians from different states of India, come together to raise money for a worthy cause and have some fun.
The DJ who we referred to as Mumbai Uncle, (he's from Mumbai) played some bhangra tunes, and joked away with us........As usual we ladies were back on the floor.......don't know what is with these men, they love to sit back and watch us dance it seems rather than partake in the best form of exercise ever.
And so what I thought would be a boring evening turned out to be quite a fun one.......and all that was needed was some good company, music, dancing and good old Bailey's (did I mention we finished a whole bottle) ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes we did....and didn't even notice till the night ended.
xoxo.....Serena
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