Friend Birthday Party

Last night Steve and I went to a birthday party for Gena our Portuguese friend . The boys were dropped off at Theresa's home. We didnt take them since we wanted to visit with her and the family alone this time, first time we didnt take them. Kinda a Date night.
Gena Turned 46. She looks so good for her age. We went over about 6pm and helped cook dinner, Steve helped Gena's Dad (Pae) with BBQ (galinha) Chicken, I helped with the Rice and seafood rice we made, It was with Gena's (mae) daughter Soriah, the mixture had oysters, shrimp, clam shells, rice, some peppers in it. It was all so tasty! We Sang happy birthday to her of course in Portugese. I remembered the first verse in Portugese, the 2nd I have not memorized. Gena's Neice, Vanessa was there she is 24 and just moved here from Namibia, Africa she studied English and spoke almost only that in Africa. She speaks Portuguese, English, African. It's so neat.
It's sad since we have not been with the portugese friends as much it's hard to remember the language, if you dont use it you forget. Steve and I both remembered some, but I think I'm going to make more of an effect again and study my books more. Steve has a gift of knowing how to Conjugate. I'm more for Vocabulary, together we can pretty much help each other if we need too. Trust me we do.
We went on a long walk we climbed the stairs up to the statue Maria in Praia, It was a great walk I would say about 3 miles or so and we talked along the way. Praia is getting ready for Praia Festival in August. Gena said some years ago the Band "Scorpions" came and she was so excited they sang many of their older songs...I guess they have concerts then so we are hopeing someone popular ones from the US comes and we can see...They mostly have Portugal Pop Singers come. Anyways we didnt get home until 11pm or so...It was a good time. I guess this monday ended out being ok.