It is Sunday and you know what that means, right? Dinner at someone's home. This week - after a nearly two week hiatus - we were off to the Weclawek's again. On the way we made a detour to look at the 100 year old brick house again and dangle it in front of the practical man in the partnership. He came, he saw, we left and there hasn't been any further discussion of the 100 year old brick house. Well, some rapid chatter in Polish as we pulled away coming from Witek's mouth and a brief interpretive statement from Aneta making it clear the subject was closed.
Dinner was delicious, as usual. Today we enjoyed Greek Fish - a white fish prepared under a bed of shredded carrots and seasonings and then oven baked (I think), chicken breast rolled in a seasoned coating and pounded thin before being stuffed with peppers and cheese and rolled for baking, mashed potatoes with fresh dill, pickles, red pepper slices and white cabbage salad. Dessert was a delicious chocolate and raspberry creme filled layer cake made by Alicja's own hand and served with Herbata (tea) or Kawa (coffee). What a feast.
I presented Witek and Alicja with a flash drive with nearly 3gb of 50's, 60's and 70's rock music from my personal collection. Of course there were a few country pieces thrown in for good measure - Emmy Lou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton from the Trio Album - to be specific. I have been working on this compilation for several weeks as Witek loves this era of music and Alicja and Witek like to dance to it. They will make good use of it during the summer months as they entertain at "the garden" cottage. After dinner Witek brought out his lap top computer and had son-in-law Witek put the flash drive in so he could listen to what was on it. Son-in-law Witek said, "You'd have to be smoking marijuana to like this music!"
But he was wrong. Alicja, Witek, little Ania and I danced for hours to the Golden Oldies and had a ball. Aneta and young Witek went shopping for the elusive ski helmut for Aneta and came back empty handed. But while they were gone we managed to cut a rug through about 50 songs
before we collapsed in exhaustion. Actually father Witek wouldn't dance except when his tiny granddaughter would go take his hand and pull him off the sofa but he was a good sport about it and indulged her most of the time. Her favorite song is Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and she dragged her grandfather off the sofa to dance to it more than once. Okay - that song is newer than the 70's and so are a lot of the others on the drive but the bulk of them are the 3 decades noted.
We returned home around 9 pm with a worn out,sleepy baby in the car. Witek returned to school and Aneta announced that tomorrow she has a surprise for me and we must be up early. So off to bed
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