Goodbye, Susie!

Our good friend doctor Susie has headed to New Mexico (Alamogordo to be exact) for a short term job assignment. Since we'll miss her so much, we designated the week before she left, "Susie Week". Evelyn and I went over for lunch and the afternoon on Thursday, we all went for her Mexican party on Saturday night and then Monday she came to our place for dinner and games.
Lunch at her place right on the James River is always wonderful. It was a great afternoon minus the entertainment next door. We were sitting in her sun room enjoying the river and looked over to see her neighbor's yard full of police! Apparently her neighbor's front door was knocked in and a lot of valuables stolen while we were sitting just next door! :( Scary!!! We called and got Susie's alarm system set up that day!
In preparation for her time near the border, Susie had an amazing Mexican party on Saturday (with heavy Laura Caywood Barker influences. ;)).

Costumes were highly encouraged so Nathan found some nice mustaches and I was a seniorita with a big flower in my hair and mexican fan.

Evie was jealous of the mustache, so Nathan shared. (I hope poor little Evie never has to see these pictures!!!)
(This is our favorite!)

Susie's place is gorgeous and we arrived in time to watch the sunset. It was a clear day so the sunset was gorgeous over the docks.

Susie's party was complete with a pinata (filled with th pop-its fire crackers, Ghirardelli and Lindt chocolate and other great things), tons of great food, fancy cascarones, and great company. :)

These cascarones are fancy things with a hollow egg filled with confetti at the top. Apparently the point is to hit people over the head with them until they break and the confetti goes everywhere. I think this batch of eggs, however, had particularly hard shells as many people had sore heads by the end.

Here's everyone. Thanks for the fun party, Susie and Laura! Come back soon, Susie!!