A Dark and Stormy Night

Last Saturday night, after the amazing soufflé experience, we celebrated one of our neighbor’s birthday. Our neighbors also came to Turkey with us and the Georgetown faculty and the Georgetown students. It was Kelly Bartley's birthday party. She is the Mom of Brewer and Ruby Bartley, and the wife of Allen Bartley. Brewer and Ruby are much younger than Seamus and me. Ruby is two and Brewer is five. Anyway, today we threw a surprise party for Kelly. We went to a traditional Turkish restaurant to wait for Kelly and the Bartleys to arrive. When Kelly came, we did the same thing as every surprise party, we jumped up and said SURPRISE.

The restaurant had out door tables and indoor tables. There was a thunderstorm outside so we ate at the indoor tables. It was too bad because we would have liked to sit out next to the garden and the cacti, maybe not for Ruby and Brewer but for Seamus, me and the rest. Inside there was a little stage where someone played her guitar and sang. The food was not something that the kids liked, it consisted of stuff like pickled apricots and a eggplantish tomato sauceish dish. The cake was amazing, the combination of fruit, white chocolate, sweet bready inside and frosting was really good. Over I think every one had a good time and despite the rain it was a great birthday party.