The first time I spent time with both Sponge Bob and Persian Party girl as a pair, was 4 years ago at one of the most absurd but hilarious weekends to take ever place in the Adelaide Wharf Years*.
Sponge Bob and I go way back and met as nannies of Luxembourg in 2005, spending our days running after kids and our nights having copious amounts of wine and getting into all sorts of trouble at the dodgy night clubs of Grund in Luxembourg Ville. Persian Party Girl however was a new addition as of that mental weekend partying across London.
This time around was my first visit to Stockholm in absolute ages without an Excel spreadsheet dividing my social ventures into slots of 45 minutes each and I therefore actually got the chance to sit down for a proper meal with these two, plus our latest addition to the group - Persian Party Girl's bump!
Heading into one of the malls in Central Stockholm, I was a bit sad to see that we would be spending such a gorgeous evening indoors, but figured an evening with these to ladies was totally worth sitting inside. Imagine my happiness and surprise when the escalator in the middle of the shopping centre leads to a beautiful garden filled with beautiful people, and most beautiful of all the two and a half ladies that were my dates for the evening.
The restaurant was beautiful and the perfect setting for an evening of laughing my way to a six pack. You got to love the people in your life that you may not see often, but still can spend an entire evening with feeling like no time has passed at all.
Between glasses of rose wine (cranberry juice for the bumpy lady) and divine servings of moules frites, steak and lamb sausages, we also were told some honest truths about pregnancy. Finally another friend who is actually not lying about it! That is two out of what feels like a hundred and it is liberating to not be told a load of fluff because someone is trying to trick other women into the club of motherhood. I'm sure it's great and yes, some babies are rather cute - but please stop pretending that pregnancy and child birth is all fairy dust and rainbows. I have seen my sister's birthing video - I know the truth. So for crying out loud, please stop lying to me! In the name of solidarity to other women if not else! Thank God for Persian Party Girl.
We'll save you some wine for 2015!
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| Two And a Half Women |
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| Gorgeous Garden |
*My former riverside home that stood as East London Party Central for several years until I inevitable became a grown up. Of sorts.
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