The Cookie Knows...

In Which I Find A Room

Saturday.

Beddinnabox!

We have a floor..!

Made in America

But evidently not the grammar.

Ah, the Sweet Sound of Lego!

So we have finally started to use at least some of the wedding loot:

Credit: Ashita, Binoy, Diana, Evie, Gordon, Malika, Radhika, Raunak, Rene, Romit, Ryan, Tomas.

So all this started out as one very happy lego heap... 

The plan is to clad our very boring Ikea tv-table with lego. TV tables are very blah.. or really really expensive. And yes, I'm aware of the irony in that last sentence..

So we began:

At some point we realized that it was going to be more complicated than we thought... and we had to do some work to figure out exactly how many rows we needed as well as where we needed a row of flatties to bring the walls up to the right height for the top surface.

Enter the Chicken of Precise Measurements:

Pretty self-explanatory I should think. Also made use of some of the extra fatties. (Only thinnies went into the making of this tv table)

So finally what we ended up with:

And that was it.. all that Lego and we got about one fourth of the table done!

But it was fun.

Tomas and Binoy were both around so they helped. Actually they did most of the work, until they got distracted by making flags of various countries with the fatties we weren't using:

Credit: Binoy, Rick, Tomas

Things we learned:

 1) If you build Lego furniture after having drunk too much submerged beer, you end up with shelves that are too small for their spaces, and have to do it all over again.

2) But since it is lego, you can take it all apart and do it again - and it's still fun.

Oh, and every one who gave us Lego will have their initial (yes only one)  in one-ies somewhere.

Lanterns!

What lanterns look like after a wedding.

Imported labour.

Pre-Guests, earning that invitation!

And after that someone has to un-tangle the fishing line, and un-tape the duct tape..

Next step - Giving away ninety-five chinese lanterns!

Experiment: Does Beer Keep Underwater?

Everyone was so helpful during the pre-wedding dinner, they took all the food and the drink and all the other stuff that you can't have a meal for fifty five people without, upstairs.

And then they brought it all back down afterwards...

...and no one told me that the ice boxes were not empty.

What I learned: Caps on beer bottles rust after being submerged for three weeks.

Also, the paper labels on the tops of the Stellas get kind of slimy.

The good news is that the beer tastes fine... as long as you pour it into a glass.

Aftermath of a Wedding

The Rodrigues Left Luggage Service 

Somewhere in there is a bedroom...