As usual, there is little to report for the week and another hectic weekend! Erik and Daniel have started going backwards and forwards to school by boat regularly now, to avoid the vagaries of Lagos traffic - by car it takes anything from 20-90mins. By boat it takes 20mins door to door. On Wednesday I was cajoled into coaching football for Erik's team (yes, I know I don't know anything about football!). Well, it went OK - the kids ran around a lot and got rid of some energy at least, which was the real point!

On Friday night there was an international evening at the Lagos Yacht Club. Included in the price of the ticket was food and drink from each of the stalls. Each country ran a stall with everything from a very good Irish Stew, Harp lager and Irish Whiskey at the Irish stand (I though of you Donal & Helen) to meat, rice and beans from Paraguay to Danish sausages, Carlsberg and Aquavit to French? paella and lasagne with red wine (it was good wherever it came from..!)

There was a live band playing called "The Bite". Inger-Lise and I ventured out onto the dance floor though it was still around 25 deg. C and 90-odd pct humidity at half-past ten at night. There were over a thousand people there, mainly expats and it was nice to bump into people we had met at different occasions since we arrived, all at the same place.

This time we were sensible and left the party early. I had to take Erik and Daniel to "Saturday Sports" at the school for kick-off at 8am and Inger-Lise had 500 Salmon sandwiches to make for the "One World International Day" at the school at 5pm. This Saturday, team Nigeria's winning streak wore off (or was it the coaching?) and they lost 2-1. Daniel's team drew 0-0. After the football, I signed Erik and Daniel up for Baseball which will start next term.

Meanwhile Inger-Lise, Irene, Anne-Lyke, Charlotte, Lisbeth and three stewards were hard at work making the sandwiches (even Inger-Lise can't make 500 sandwiches on her own). I picked up Mathilde and Joy after football and spent the afternoon with Sven, Alexander and Malin, mainly in the pool. I can definitely get used to drinking beer in swimming pools! We ordered in Chicken Tikka and Margarita pizzas for lunch which was great.

The "One World International Day" event was an amazing feat of organisation. It was similar to the Yacht Club event in a way: there were stalls with food, drink games, pictures, etc. representing most of the nationalities of the students at the school. The event started with a parade of flags. Erik and Alex (3rd grade) carried the Norwegian flag. Each child got a passport and could go round and get a stamp from each of the stalls. They could win tokens at the games and trade them in for a prize - the more tokens the better the prize. There was also a big bouncy-castle/slide-thing and various dancing and music shows. The adults' passport was a book of food vouchers which you could use to sample food at each of the stalls. All this was organised by the school and the parents together. It was really impressive.

Inger-Lise's Norwegian stall was a big success. People loved the salmon, though I have to say that the Lefse (sweet potatoe cakes) were more difficult to sell. Inger-Lise had managed to organise for a Norwegian salmon producer (King Mikals Laks) to sponsor her with 20kg of smoked salmon and provided some promotional material. Erik and Daniel were running around the school and we didn't know where they were half the time (thank goodness we took Joy with us to look after Mathilde). They reappeared every now again with another sweet or toy in their hands. They had a great time.

Inger-Lise and the other Norwegian ladies who had helped on the stall went to Bottles (a nearby TexMex restaurant with faaantastic Margueritas) for the evening. Erik and Daniel's friend Alexander came back with Joy and me for a sleep over. They were still talking at 10:30 when I crashed out.

On Sunday, we did our usual thing and went to the American GQ. This time we went with a British/US family: Mike, Sioban, Haili (8) and Mathew (5) - Daniel's best friend at school. Mike and I played an hour of tennis followed by some pool in the bar.