Home on Ikoyi Island

In the first shot, you will see my husband, Chef Chris making a fabulous dinner for 5 close friends we met while living at the Eko Hotel and our new neighbor, Nick with whom we share the 6th Floor. The 3 course dinner included African Tabouli, Ravioli, Homemade pasta with meatballs, Eggplant Parmesan and for dessert, Chocolate fudge pie with vanilla ice cream and drizzled with Cabernet berry sauce. What a great dinner and a great evening with good friends. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures while they were here, but some of them you saw at St. Andrews Ball.

This is an odd assortment of pictures; some are mostly for Val and my Mom. The next one after Chris is the master bedroom with the new curtains. (We bought curtains/draperies for the entire flat while we were in Houston.) Val should recognize some of them because we looked at them while we were in Dallas at West Elm. There are a couple of pictures of our front and back balconies with plants, both old and new and all are growing. (Everything grows here!)

We have new additions to our menagerie. Meet Joliette, Jollof and Little Joe, the three new giraffes. They may not look like it in the photo but Joliette is about 5’ tall. They are from South Africa and we bought them from a departing expat. We always have a red wall and this home is no exception. The red beaded lamp is a recent addition, just in time for Christmas.

The flowers were purchased for the dinner party, although we buy flowers every now and then. They are very exotic and interesting and also inexpensive. These were probably about $11 USD. The table setting I knew Val and Mom would enjoy; looks like Chris and Donnie with the addition of African placemats and napkin holders.
The last two images are a homitan sunset, quite lovely! We are around for most of the holidays until the day after Christmas, then we are off to Ghana for four days. Ghana is a very small country to our North (I believe). It’s also on the coast. We will be in Accra, the capitol, also right on the coast.

If you wish to see the complete set of photos, go to http://picasaweb.google.com/donniedayp

We wish you and bright, happy and joyous holiday season and hope to hear from some if not all of you real soon.

Love to you all,

Chris & Donnie