Lighthouse Corporation throws a Party!

Piotr and I were invited to the celebration of Lighthouse Corporations (Piotrs employer) building completion this past weekend.  After attending the event I can undoubtedly say that these people know how to have fun and throw one helluva party!  The party was held at a fancy reception hall called 4U, fit with an enormous chandelier, stage lighting and stage, and 2 huge video screens on each side.  It was a formal event, so we recycled our Christmas eve outfits, smoky grey dress with ruffled neck for the lady and charcoal grey dress shirt and light Banana Republic khakis for the gentlemen.

The party started at 11am with wine and snacks, we arrived fashionable late in our matching greys at 11:20.   When the clock struck 12,  the snacks were replaced with 5 different delectable dishes and the wine was replaced with more wine.  The first dish was a seafood salad, the only ingredients I recognized was shrimp, but the flavor was the perfect combination of spicy meets sweet meets seafood.  I had thirds on the salad.  The next dish was a heavily seasoned beef wrapped around a mix of greens and served with slices of cucumber. Dish number three was roasted duck with gravy, mashed potato balls, and mini semi-sweet rolls.  The fourth dish was my favorite, baked fluffy white fish, lettuce leaves and finely chopped green chili pepper.  The idea was to take a decent sized chunk of fish, wrap it in the lettuce leave and then dip it in the chopped chilis.  YUM!  The fifth and final dish was the filler, stir fried rice.

Meanwhile, the MC's were keeping us all entertained with games.  The first game was who could count the highest in one breath.  The winner counted to 110 (I think... it was in Vietnamese.)  The next game involved lots of beer, 2 teams, a "help me" sign and Piotr and I on opposing teams.  Piotr slammed 3 glasses, I didn't slam any and my team still won:))) ha ha  Thanks to that game, I walked away with a free bottle of wine and wine glass to go with it.  However, games were not the only form of entertainment.  Intermittently, between the games there were singing acts put on by different employees of the company, many of whom are Piotr's students.  Did I mention that all the while, the wine glasses continued to be refilled, the beer continued to be poured and the food continued to be ate.   A performance by Mr. Vu, the top dog, and the rest of the engineers, signified the end of a great party.  The time was 1:30pm.  Thank you for coming, and don't forget to pick up your gift at the reception!