After lunch at the GQ, Inger-Lise went home with Daniel and Mathilde, while I went to the Cub Scout "Raingutter Regatta" with Erik.

A Raingutter Regatta consists of two lengths of guttering placed on trestles and filled with water. The boys then make their own sailboats out of aluminium food trays. The card lid is the sail and a wooden skewer is stuck in place as a mast using tape. The boys each decorated their sails with crayons before the race. Erik made a viking ship sail (red and white stripes and a eagle). The boys then place their boats at one end of the gutters and the first one to blow their boat to the other end wins. It was good fun and there is more to the design than meets the eye!

In the evening, Inger-Lise and I went out to our first formal ball - the Scottish "Chieftain's Ball", to inaugurate the new head of the Lagos Caledonian Society. It was an excellent evening with lots of Champagne, wine and whiskey, pretty good food, impressive displays of Nigerian dancing and Scottish dancing (not so impressive! but great fun nevertheless). We had a fun table: Morten & Pernille, Rob & Debbie and Stuart & Tracy and it made a change to get dressed up in formal gear.

Jeremy