Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Christmas Day, Elbow Beach 25th of Dec

Christmas 2011

This year's Christmas I spent in different style. Philippine crew from the Atlantic Explorer organize Christmas dinner at the dock next to the ship. They made every effort to ensure that everything was nice and festive. They roasted a pig on the spit and prepared a lot of delicious food like turkey, shrimps or spring roles. We also prepared some food for this occasion. Each one of us made some special meal from our country. So there was Russian vegetable salad, Indian rice and milk, Brazilian 'pudding', Japanese sushi, Chinese dumplings and Polish pierogi off course. Chunli put a coin inside one of the dumplings for a good luck in coming year to the person who finds it. The lucky one turned to be Pri - congrats!!  

Everything was great except of the weather. But it didn't stop us from having good time. We were eating all the delicious dishes and listening to the american carols. After dinner the crew set up a karaoke and most of us tried their hand in singing with bad and... worse effect :-) and after midnight the party started. 

  

Polish vs Chinese dumplings

My Birthday

This year, as my friend pointed out, I had the longest lasting birthday of my life (so far) because it started in Poland just after midnight so it was 7:00pm in Bermuda and ended here at midnight, so it was 29hours. 

I must say it was very happy 29hrs EVER!!! I had really great time and I spent it with my new friends who surprised me with many birthday gifts. And off course there was a cake. The most delicious chocolate-muss cake ever, made by Pri. There was mold wine and gingerbread cookies made by me and Argentinian picada (crackers, cheese & ham). Everything was perfect that day: the food, the people, the weather and it made my day.

My precious 

and Truffle was with us too

A chocolate orange made in Poland!!

Baking cookies with Truffle

My first gingerbread cookies =)

Why not. It's Christmas so why not to bake some cookies. Nice smell in whole house and You feel like Christmas. I must say that they are not that bad as for the first time. I even found some christmas theme molds to make Santa and christmas socks.
Check it out!

And I even had some help! Truffle. Cute Labrador I am taking care of while his owner is gone home for Christmas.

The Boat Parade

A short story of the life of Stefan the Octopus...

It was a sunny and warm December afternoon. After lunch Maria and I decided to drink coffee by the water so we went at the dock. And then suddenly we saw a beautiful octopus in the water right next to us. It was amazing! Doesn't happen every day! He was resting in shallow water, heating up in the sun and changing colour from time to time. We called him Stefan.

While he was 'relaxing himself', bad man came and caught him in the net. Poor Stefan did not suspect anything! He tried to fight but it was pointless. Big man was stronger and hungry for delicious Stefan's meat.

So now Stefan will be a delicious dinner! 

Let this be a warning for other octopus such as Stefan, not to come to BIOS again.