Seychelles (Dinner in the dark!)

On September 16th, 1976, Seychelles (pronounces say-shells) joined the UN.  I don't know how many times I heard someone say Seychelles sea shells by the sea shore, or some version of.

This is our 39th dinner, and 51st country in the series.  4 years, 4 months, and 12 days since our first dinner!!!

This dinner could be described as... "electrifying".  Sense of foreboding?  No worries, no one got hurt.

Dinner was being held a Amber's, the hostess with the mostess... except for chairs.  Like me, her apartment is too small to own full time long tables, but I had plenty of folding tables and chairs to bring along to supplement for our fairly large group.

People arrive, the cooking begins, hors d'oeurves curtsy of Thanasi, and drinks curtsy of Chris, are served.  And it starts to rain.

Then it rains harder.  Then it gets dark.  Then we start to see flashes of lighting and hear the resulting thunder.  This is when Jack steps in to protect us from the dangerous thunder by barking ferociously back at the sky with every boom.

For those not familiar with Seattle/Tacoma weather, lighting and thunder is a rare occurrence, and even then only one, maybe two flashes light up the clouds, and are never really seen.  Now it was flashing and booming, for what seemed like once for twice every few minutes.  It actually got so bad that they had to postpone some sporting evens being held that evening in Seattle.

At some point during the storm, the lights begin to flicker, but I don't think anyone thought that hard about it.  Right up until the lights went out and we were left standing in the dark.  Thus begins our first UN dinner in the dark!

Thanks to it being the 21st century, everyone whipped out their smart phones and turned on the the flashlight feature.  Thanasi even went as far to McGyver our own ceiling light and ingeniously stick his phone to the ceiling.

Lucky for us, everyone was either done, or far enough to be considered done, cooking, and we were able to still enjoy our meal.  Food and conversation can be enjoyable in any venue, but only at a UN dinner can a discussion about micro-bioms... or was it macro?... degrade into discussions about Jack eating poop.

Unfortunately, the entire time I was thinking about how I planning on providing dessert, and it still sat uncooked on the counter.  I was just resigning myself to having to eat a ton of plantains tomorrow when <pop!> the lights switch back on!  I believe I jumped up with a shout of glee and ran immediately to the kitchen to get my dish on the stove.  So our dinner in the dark ended with dessert in the light.

Dinner: 39
Country:51
Celebrated: September 7th, 2019