Preparations for New Years Eve!

The week between Christmas and New Year flew by full of doing nothing particular. We managed another round of golf with Andrew, this time in much warmer sunnier weather, we went into Aguilas at night to see the square all lit up and the Christmas lights along the streets and while we were there we took Andrew to Randy & Michelle's for Fish & Chips - and they were good.

All too soon it was time to start thinking about New Years Eve's plans. Terreros closes at 5.00pm on New Years Eve. A couple of the english bars were having parties but we had decided to have our own party at the villa. What had started out as a group of friends, a few drinks and a few games on the Wii took off along a complete tangent one evening in mid-December and we were now hosting a Pirate Murder Mystery Dinner.

I had done all the planning before Christmas, we had decided to do curry and our guests were all bringing something towards the meal and drink. One thing we did need to do was sort out our costumes. There is a new Shopping Centre opened about half an hour away in Lorca and we had been told there was a good costume shop there so, one afternoon we took a drive up there.

The new shopping centre is really very good, and I look forward to having a shopping day there with some of the ladies but we were on a mission, no time for window shopping today. After walking through the centre for a while we suddenly found the shop in question - and it's great for fancy dress and themed parties. It's called Megumi (http://www.megumifiestas.com/ )and is packed with costumes, hats, wigs and all kinds of accessories - we were like kids in a sweet shop.

When we have done themed dinners in the UK we have always hired our costumes and generally pay about £25 for the nights hire. In this shop you can buy outfits for as little as €15 and they are better quality than some of the outfits I have hired before. Both Neil & I got our pirate outfits sorted fairly quickly and a quick rummage through the shelves and we had some pirate accessories for the dinner as well - tablecloths, napkins etc.

So, we were just about ready for New Years Eve - all we needed to do now was work out how to seat 11 people for dinner.