An American Couple in London: Poker Night!

We had yet to have anyone over for dinner since we moved to the UK. Didn't like our first place to have people for dinner -and just hadn't gotten around to it with our new place. Yesterday that changed as we had friends Colleen and Kevin over for some food and poker!

We started with 6 Nations Rugby and pints out (Wales beat Scotland). After some drink and a bit of lunch (and a little more drink) we headed back to ours for dinner. We decided to have homemade pizza's - those of you at my birthday last year would know them - so had some work to do to get things ready. It was a very good thing that we did all the prep work before going out for rugby because otherwise we would have had a little trouble getting things together when we got home :) But it all came together quite nicely with the pizza's disappearing as quickly as we turned them out. Yum!

Then things got serious with the cards and cash coming out. The level of play was high - I think any of us could have challenged at the World Series of Poker. Unfortunately there could only be one winner on this night - it was winner take all. Katherine went out first, then Kevin. A bold bet was made (All in!), the bet was matched, and the winner was crowned - Colleen.

We wrapped up the evening with a game of, well, no idea what it's called but it combines charades and 20 questions. We were very into it as demonstrated by the visit from our upstairs neighbor came down to ask us to quiet down. Oops.