The Housewarming Swarming

The site of the swarming! Our flat's on the fourth floor (or "third floor" according to the Europeans). My bedroom is the fourth floor, second from the left (next to the one with the open window, which is Daf's room.)



I had suggested to my flatmates - Marco, Daf, and Johana - that we host a housewarming party of sorts, and they were all keen on the idea. The idea was for all four of us to each invite all our friends, and then this way we'd have four different social circles all coming together. It would be a multi-national, multi-lingual party - very 'The Spanish Apartment' if you've ever seen that great film. I was super excited about it, and so invited all of my buddies and told them to invite whoever they wanted to as well.

Not sure who would come, I was expecting that realistically it would be a smallish gathering of just some cool peeps hanging out. Well, it turned into a huge mega party with a far higher turnout than I could have imagined! I didn't actually count but my guess would be in the 30 + range, which is awesome! And with the exception of three people, all of the guests were connected to me! Wow, I feel so popular! There were a good number of people there who I didn't even know (friends had invited other friends) and this to me is always a good sign of a successful party. Funny thing is that some of these strangers seemed to think it was my birthday party, so several times during the night I had people coming up to me to wish my 'Happy Birthday!' Not exactly sure how that got started, but whatever! ;-)

There were PLENTY of drinks flowing, and Scotty was piss-ass drunk in no time at all. There's huge chunks of the night that I don't entirely remember all that clearly, but I know that fun was had by all, and when people left they thanked me for "a great party!" YES! My social status here in Prague has been officially established! The housewarming party also coincided exactly with my 6-month anniversary of life in Prague, and I think the good turnout is a big testament to how lucky I am that I've got such a good gang of friends here! Yah! :-)

Enjoy the pictures below! There's quite a few, so you might wanna grab a coffee or snack first before sitting down and getting too comfortable. ;-)

Lukash, Scotty, and Stepan

Girl whose name I can't remember (Jen?), Shawn, and Claire (who looks a bit like Sophie Ellis-Bextor if you ask me!)

My Czech girls! Ivana, Eva, and Anna catch up on my bed.

Oscar and "the crazy girl" on my couch.

My flatmate Daf and his friend Martina.

Patriko and Scotty

Oscar claims that he wasn't drunk at the party, but I think this picture proves otherwise! Notice the dazed expression and drunken eyes, plus the can of Gambrinus in his hand! Oscar you've been caught in the act! :-)

Cory, Justin, Rachel

Kim and Alasdair

Greg, Laurie, Anna

Petr and Patrik

Carolyn and Kate - two all-American girls chatting it up!

Scotty and Christina chatting in the corner.

Christina, girl whose name I also forget, Oscarito, and Iwy

Fashionistas Grace and Kamila

Manny, Sharka, and Marco (my Spanish flatmate)

Scotty and Manny, the only Canadians at the party!

Awww don't leave Kamila! Stay a while longer!

Cory, Justin, and Kate all hail from Nashville (yeehaw!), Rachel's from England, and then Marco and I on the end.

Cuddles in the kitchen! Laurie, Carolyn, and Greg

Johana (our unofficial fourth flatmate!) and Marco

It's EuroRoomies! Canadian Scotty, Czech Johana, Spanish Marco, and Welsh Daf together in a photo for the first time ever.

At Daf's suggestion, we all tried to pull off the 'serious look.' (Nice job looking serious, Marco!)

Super cute Manny and Sharka together.

Yep Petr's starting to look a bit drunk...

Love is all around! Former roomies Carolyn and Alasdair embrace.

Oscar and Martina

Stylish Grace knows how to handle her beer!

Scotty and Iwy looking adorable.

Iwy hands out the cuddles.

Does art imitate life or does life imitate art? Here the lines blur between Mona and Al.

Getting cozy on the dancefloor!

Uber cute!

Another pic that makes me laugh! Scotty and Al hamming it up as always.

Apparently I'm also a vampire who's out to bite Grace's neck!

Here's one for the living room photo frame!

Friends and colleagues, Al and Christina

Grace and Al looking quite saucy on the dancefloor!

Johana is at a loss for words at Scotty's marriage proposal.

Super sexy! Hanging out...on the kitchen floor...Scotty and Carolyn.

The dancefloor becomes a 3-ring circus as Kim and Greg (pictured here) perform some acrobatics.

Wow! Greg's got *many* talents!

Oh no! Gracey got a little excited in the spirit of things and spilt some precious beer on the floor!

"Phew that was a lot of hard work! Time to reward myself with some more beer!"

Dance girl, dance! (sorry, forget her name too!)

In another dimension, we'd be hearing wedding bells right about now... ;-)

Drunkenness all over my bed! Carolyn, Oscarito, and Laurie.

Marco and Johana - the super cute couple!

Petr and Iwy enjoy a smoke break in the stairwell.

Petr finally embraces his great love for all that is Germany by showing off her favourite Starbucks Berlin mug!