Our departmental Xmas party was last night - leaving the office at the rather acceptable time of 3pm, to arrive at Cafe Pacifico for Tequila and Burritos at 4. While the food and cocktails in the restaurant were very nice, the price was less acceptable: somehow coming in at £32 for a Quesada Grande (£8.95), one tequila (£2.90), and one mojito (£5.95), actual total £17.80. Of course, when you’re in a group of seventeen, it’s difficult to complain too loudly - but when seventeen people are paying £32 each, you do have to wonder where that extra £240 went to !
After food, we headed off to K-Box Karaoke rooms off Leicester Square. I’ve never been to Karaoke before - discounting a group singing of ‘Louie, Louie‘ back in Buffalo in 1992 - so was a little nervous about the whole thing. Luckily my two old friends Gin and Tonic came to the aid, and I was soon crooning along with the best of them. Unfortunately, the track I’d hoped to sing (’24 hours from Tulsa‘) wasn’t available, and there wasn’t any Johnny Cash either, so I had to sing these instead:
There’s photo’s available somewhere I suspect, so I’ll get some of the least offensive ones linked from here soon. Update: photo’s (viewable by f&f only) here.
Also, I don’t know if there was something in that tequila or not, but somehow, for some reason, this morning I booked myself a two-week holiday in Mexico. What’s that about then ?
