Maybe you were wondering why I went all the way to Denmark for a Eurovision party (aside - no, the Eurovison Song Contest was not in Denmark. I was invited to a Eurovision party that was held in Denmark. The song contest was in Israel. Maybe that makes it more confusing?) and am just posting about it now. I have already bought the cd so it must be time to wrap it up with a post.
After listening to the official videos I initially didn't like any of the songs, but listening for a few more weeks made me a fan.
Here's a fifteen minute recap of the 41 songs.
Last year's winner was a song called Toy.
This was my attempt at a costume that went with the Toy theme AND fit in my suitcase.
The cakes went along with the theme, too. Chocolate teddy bear, marzipan frisbee, lemon rubber ducky, and vanilla Rubik's cube.
We had Eurovision Song Contest trivia and also Eurovision bingo.
This is an example, not the one we used.
Of course there was the actual song contest, which we did actually watch. There were enough entertaining bits and enough silliness to make it feel like Eurovision.
Australia (wait, Australia is not in Europe, I hear you cry. Yes, but they wanted to be and they are not the US so Europe let them join) had the most Eurovision song. The official video above gives you a sense of the final performance, but if you want to see the real thing from the point of view of an audience member, check this out.
After the long voting process, both juried votes and televoting by individuals, Netherlands came out the winner, as predicted. If you aren't in the US you can probably see the winning performance. Otherwise you will have to watch a pre-competition video. Sigh.
Or you could watch an 18-minute summary of the whole evening. My favorite part was when the former winners sang songs performed by other winners (especially at 14:15 when Verka Serduchka sings Toy).
What finally got me to write this up happened just a block from my house. As I was walking the dog I saw a party truck.
On the other side were some screen with games. A few kids had chosen the Wii dance option and there was Netta singing Toy and people happily dancing along. When I asked if they had heard the song before they told me of course they had!
It is nice to have an event that brings so many smiles to so many people!
It was hard to find a coffee place that was not a chain and the first one did not have decaf for my friend. Turns out this one didn't either, but it looked more interesting.
Next stop was IKEA.
Thank goodness for coffee in, coffee out. Otherwise I would not have had the chance to use a new kind of dyson hand dryer.
There were lots of things I did not buy.
In addition to their regular blue bags they had rainbow bags (this is not one, but the logo from their website).
I might have bought this bag if I had seen it.
I did not buy any paper napkins.
Or hourglass sand timers.
Or wooden birds, two color options.
For the first time I got to go into these aisles.
I did buy onions.
Nice vacation without all the driving or lines at the airport.
