Families Collide!

Dan has had the event 'Families Collide!' in his phone calender for a couple of weeks, but now they have collided I thought I would tell you about the collision:

Although I have met Dan's family lots of times and he has met mine quite a few times, the families have never met each other or really even bothered to learn eachothers names, but as we're officially engaged and they will most likely be sharing a grandchild sometime in the next decade, we though it was about time they met.

We met in Southport where Dan's family live which by a weird coincidence is also where my mum grew up which meant we had to go a visit "auntie" Chris who is a fake auntie of my mum's that we only see at funerals...but because no one has died for a while we haven't seen her. I don't have grandparents so I've forgotten that old people exist, and this trip was a little reminder of what old people are like, which can be ok in moderation. So I remembered that old people have tea cups with saucers, and extra flowery wall paper and they have a trolley that helps them bring in the tea, and they have a very good selection of cakes and biscuits including Christmas cake...which was presumably still around because of their lack of interaction with the outside world. Bless...I hope they don't read Internet blogs in their spare time.

After our educational trip to "auntie" Chris' we carried on with the journey to Dan's house. I had given my family a few handy survival tips for example 'Dan's Dad can only make really milky tea, if you don't like milky tea don't ask for tea' but my Dad seemed to take this tip and turn it into a challenge. We all met and introduced ourselves and Dan's family showed my family round the church next door where we're getting married and then it was time for a cup of tea. 'Can I have tea with just a little bit of milk?' said my Dad, as I gave him evils. 'That might be difficult for me' said Dan's Dad in a jokey way.

What do you think is the correct response to this?
a) a polite smile
b) to say 'I know!'

and what do you think my Dad did? durrr. The tea was brought in on a tray with milk in a jug so we could pour our own.

Apart from that it went well. I was particularly pleased when the story of our gerbils tragic electrocution came out that the full ending of the story was not as detailed as it could be. All the way though I was wondering if the coffin made from a tampon box would come up, luckily it didn't. Phew.