Pasta with Shrimps and Pedro Ximenez from Eufrasio Millán. Special Recipes.

This time the special recipe comes from Topo, Eufrasio Millán, a great Scrabble player that in 2009 had the first price of the Duplicates mode at the Scrabble in Spanish World Championship. But specially: a great friend.

He prepared this recipe for me and Curro on May 21st. We had been at his home during that weekend, also with Pochola. It was great!!!

The recipe is at the video:



Update of June 8th: a friend of the Scrabble web redeltras.com, Tonecha, used oregano instead of thyme and it was great as well! : D

Massage pillow I-need. My gadgets and other thingamajigs!

This was one of the most succesful gadgets the recent weekend that some of my Scrabble friends were at home.
I bought it 3 years ago at the Miami Airport and yes, I´m so happy with it! :D

It suposed to be just for the lumbar area but everybody tries it in other places as well, with very well resoults. Here you can see Montse using it at the head, for example:



Here a video that shows how it works:



You can buy it at  Brookstone, the usual price is 59.95 US$ but! Right now is on sale at 29.99 US$!!

Of course I recommend it! :D :D

First International Night Tourney “Igotita´s Home”

Hehehehe I know! A big name for just some games at home, but you see, the way that all matched was deserving a big name! :D

On one hand, Patxi and Montse were sure about coming to play the Madrid Tourney just few days before. Otoh Héctor Klíe, the current President of the Scrabble in Spanish International Federation, was in Spain due vacations. The really special thing was that by coincidence Patxi and Montse went back to Girona on Monday 31st. morning… and Héctor also was going back to his home in USA the same morning! How could I resist to try to arrange some games at home then?? :D

Héctor has his day so busy already, so we should talk around 9 at night to see if it was possible to play a bit. Due different reasons, Héctor arrived at home at 11.30 that night. Topo was also at home but ill, so he can´t play.

So the tourney was between Montse, Patxi, Héctor and I.



No matter we were playing just a few friendly games, we took it very seriously.

Here the resoults:

Héctor had the first place, Patxi the second one, so they play the final match… starting at 2.20 a. m.!! :D



Patxi won that game, 473 to 453, 3 and 2 scrabbles. So, they decide to play the revenge…





Héctor won this one, 550 to 378; 4 and 3 scrabbles. So… they decide to do a new revenge! Starting at 4.14 a.m.!!! :D



Héctor also won that one. 497 to 452, 4 and 3 scrabbles.



I was the public, the judge and “the coffee girl” hehehehe.

Actually it was so nice to watch Patxi playing, afterwards I asked him some whys and was so nice for me to note that I would took some same decisions. :D

Of course it was a Price for the first place! : D

At 5.00 in the morning we were telling good bye to Héctor and I went with Patxi to talk a bit while he was smoking… to talk about scrabble! Of course! Hehehe. Patxi and Montse went out at 6.00… Montse should go straight to work from the airport!

We also concluded that Héctor has some kind of “cameras sensor” Every time I made a click, he was smiling to the camera! :

Pics of Madrid Tourney last day and the night before at home

 
We had the honor of having the visit of the current President of the International Scrabble in Spanish Federation, Héctor Klíe and his wife, by chance they both were on vacations with their family in Spain. :D

Deers at Hogue Veluwe Park

Hogue Veluwe is a precious park in Netherlands. Quite big and with wondering things like a museum with Van Gogh paints... or the red deers as the ones at the pic. I took this photo on April, this year.