happy holidays

party canceled - very sad news...

with a very heavy heart we are saying good-bye to our bestest man, good friend, partner-in-crime-solution, wonderful travel companion and fellow adventurer opus.

he didn't feel so well for quiet a while and the time came yesterday when he had to go to the bridge, to be re-united with his brother roscoe.

you will always be with us!

birthday invitation!

do not miss it.
it will be awesome.
a good old party with fun, drama and chaos!
at ruis' blog.

and yes - we will party again!!!

this saturday, december 3, we will have a big birthday party for my husband ruis!
come and check it out - it will have all the fun and drama and chaos that you got to expect from us over the years, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
and it will be at a very unusual place too!
here is our luggage, all packed and ready - can you guess who's bag is who's?
pssst - we'll post the solution friday!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

a thousand thanks to my dear husband ruis for this wonderful costume!

halloween coming up!

HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY OPUS!

we are celebrating opus 16th birthday over at gracie's place.
as opus health wasn't so good lately we are doing a low key event for a change...
but head on over and celebrate with us!

surpirse party!

please join us to celebrate opus 16th birthday!!!

PARTY!

see you at momo's place

stay save everybody!

picture by zoolatry

bora bora day

as you might remember - or maybe not - ruis and i took a trip to bora bora for our first wedding anniversary!
we had a beautiful little hut by the water
and did a lot of water sports.
then we got a surprise visitor and sure enough
the next day we had many more!

now gracie has decided to go to bora bora to teach her human a lesson and invited us all to come along!

we decide to go by submarine, the way we had left last time and ruis and i are in the same little house we had the last time.

and of course we right away go to the beach again to frolic in the water!

then we decide to do something we hadn't done the last time: we visit a marae, a communal or sacred place which serves religious and social purposes. asta really liked that tiki, hahahahahahahaha!

and in the evenings we sit together and watch the beautiful sunsets and enjoy each others company! once again the gang (karl and ruis, momo, asta, opus and ollie and our new member gracie) is united! thank you, gracie.

invitation

come back here on august 4 to see!

the aftermath......

you might remember the cafe where the wedding party took place...

and would you believe it - when we finally decided it was time to go home - we couldn't find the way back to our vacation home anymore! gracie got really anxious - it was dark, we are in a foreign country - but we have NO idea WHERE... her driving might have gotten a bit erratically. and sure enough - the police stopped us and had gracie do a breathalyzer test....

but of course she didn't drink. and would never drive under the influence! but as we others had had quiet a lit of nip, nip champgne, nip martinis, nip-you-name-it the police arrested us nevertheless......

as it turned out they brought us to this old prison, which LOOKED like a prison, but is actually a hotel and ordered coffee for us and just gave us a warning and a map to our vacation house...

...where we finally got some sleep! or at least some of us.....

picture by asta

the wedding celebration

while the staff is having their legal ceremony and such we are preparing the cafe for the evening celebration. karl has watched his maid practice so here he is leading ruis in a close embrace tango, while momo and gracie are watching.

picture by asta

then opus takes ollie and they get carried away with a fiery paso doble!

picture by asta

and then, a little later, as usual, things get a wee bit more out of hand....


and yes - the story does not quiet end here either..... come back in a few days for the conclusion of this...

ruis' staff is getting married!

today ruis' typist is getting married to her long time partner and long before we even got the invitation the gang (asta, gracie, momo, opus and ollie, and myself) had already decided to crash the wedding anyhow!
we rented a nice little vacation house in heel, limburg, the netherlands where ruis lives.

picture by momo

then we took the MFV and drove over to ruis house to unpack our presents and the cake and set up for a nice cocktail party before the wedding.
we had just started to unload when ruis screams NO! and tells us we are actually unloading at the neighbors house, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

picture by gracie

after moving to the right house we set up the wedding cake in the backyard and hide all inside of it, waiting for the humans to show up so we can jump out of the cake!

picture by karl

picture by asta

then we decorate a little.

picture by gracie and karl

we put the table with the presents (pink champagne and chocolates) on the side of the yard

and after hanging the first decorations dive into the chocolate cake....

picture by asta

momo, ollie and gracie managed to get chocolate all over their pretty dresses and have to change! and momo has to bring in the back-up chocolate fountain as we have pretty much eaten up the other cake...

picture by gracie

and then gracie puts up a beautiful flower ark.

picture by gracie

tonight we will celebrate in the cafe where ruis and myself once celebrated carnival!

we will post those pictures this weekend! so come back!
we promise it will be worth your time!

something is up!

it will happen july 13, is all i am saying....

happy birthday!

thanks for the picture to zoolatry

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ML AND ALL THE BEST TO YOU!!!

happy easter to everybody!

happy st. patrick's day!

ahhhhh - the good old times....

mardi gra party for gracie

go here to party!

MOMO NEEDS PURRS

momo

MANGO MINSTER 2011 ENTRY POST

the category is "kitteh".
i am the best in this category because i AM a kitteh.
com'on - who else can give you a look like this, right?
and it didn't say 'shameless kitteh', 'kitteh diva', 'good old gal', 'bad sport', or 'cracer kitteh', just plain old KITTEH. although of course i AM all of the above too (except for the bad sport maybe).
but to play the game right, i will give you a typical "kitteh" posture:

Mango Minster

edna

the after party

remember that great birthday party over at gracie's?
after tea we explored wonderland a bit and then someone suggested to try the mushrooms....

...which resulted in quiet a mirrorglass/wonderland experience....

...and of course ended in another AFTERMATH:

picture by gracie

HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAAAAAHAA

MAD CATTER PARTY!

the day of the party has finally arrived! please head over to gracie where all the fun is taking place.
the whole gang - opus and olive, momo, asta, me and ruis - are all there to celebrate with gracie her mad catter birthday party.
here we are waiting to get into the wonderland.

picture by gracie

and here is a sneak peek of ruis and me and how things might look a little later...

have fun at the party!
and knowing us you might want to come back to check if we will once again end up in an "aftermath".....

PARTY!!!!

the only times we post seem to be those when there is a party somewhere....
this one at gracie's is special! and will be quiet 'wonder'ful...