Independence day

The honorary consul invited local estonians to his restaurant on the 24th to celebrate Estonian independence day. It was a great little party - just under 20 people, quite a colorful bunch. A few young girls who work in restaurants, a few bank, IT people, students etc. All in all an adventurous bunch, well travelled and enthusiastic. We found a few families with kids as well, even same age, so looking forward to a play date on Sunday. Also met finally the girl that my hairdresser has been talking about, however she had only been to him once. Just to prove the good fantasy of hairdressers because my impression from him was that she is a regular. And just last week a neighbor had given me a card from an estonian girl who works as a restaurant manager. She was there as well. 

Hopefully there will be some more regular get-togethers as the group got into quite a good mood and great relaxed atmosphere - well wine was flowing and we had a few shots of vodka to toast the Republic. 

The restaurant is very nice - an old colonial black-and-white house that has been renovated really nicely in fabulous garden setting with ponds and paths between the different seating areas. It is just tucked away from the main traffic and a bit hard to find so it doesn't get any passers by clients, just people who know about it. Which might be a bit hard in this economic climate. But hopefully it can keep going. It was just awarded the best new restaurant title recently.

Yesterday we had an event of the century - a rainbow! For some reason rainbows are extremely rare in Singapore and it caused a lot of excitement on the condo in the evening. For many kids it was the first time they saw one.