7/12 Exhaustion sets in

Wednesday 7 December

We’re so exhausted by all this holidaying that we slept in. It’s weird – every time the clocks go back and we get an extra hour of sleep we wake up even later??  Tried our hand at the ‘throw the ball through the back of the chair’ & the ‘kick your shoe into the hula hoop lying on the ground’ games.  (Editor’s note: it’s the hoop that is lying on the ground) (Author’s note: the editor is now lying on the ground) Not successful at either but it was fun.  Then the ‘beer quiz’ which we were not that good at either.   They play a lot of fun party games each day, they require some skill and a lot of luck.  Some games seem impossible then someone manages to fluke it. The evening show was a very clever mime artist.

The late pleb game plumbed new depths of banality. It seemed no English-speaking guests felt tempted to stand up front for 20 minutes playing “hands up – hands down” and being eliminated when they got it wrong. So the game was played exclusively in Portuguese. The game then developed to a new level of sophistication where the players had to put their hands DOWN when he said up. Awesome . . . not.  Wearied by overwhelming mirth, we fell asleep early.