Dinner for Nineteen
We enjoyed dinner last evening at a Japanese restaurant somewhere in the Research Triangle Park. The food, served over a period of three hours in wave after wave of courses, was wonderful. We dined on critters that fly in the air, swim in the seas and walk on the earth in portions that were, thankfully, of Japanese size. Then, of course, there was warm saki wine, cold white wine and room-temperature red wine. It was a truly wonderful meal.
The dinner party was an interesting one. It included a Chinese couple, a Chinese and properly Virginian couple, an Irish and Irish-American couple, an Irish and Korean couple and their Irish-Korean-American daughter, a Polish-Irish-American and German-American couple, an German-Appalachian-American (me!) and German-American (the CFO) couple and a Czech-Argentine-Jamaican-Canadian-American and North Carolinian of undetermined ancestry couple with their son and her mother, brother and extended family, altogether totaling nineteen persons.
Turns out we were celebrating the 35th wedding anniversary of the Czech-Argentine-Jamaican-Canadian-American and North Carolinian of undetermined ancestry couple. The guy was born of Czech parents in Argentina but was raised by a Jamaican family and spent some time in Canada before attending school at North Carolina State University where he met his his North Carolinian wife-to-be on one Monday and married her the very next Monday some 35 years ago. After giving an amusing yet touching stream-of-consciousness speech about his wife and his families in Argentina, Jamaica and North Carolina, he concluded by thanking everyone from coming to help them celebrate their anniversary and, in closing, announced that he was paying for our dinners.
For nineteen people, at an upscale Japanese restaurant, for a 10+ course dinner.
That, folks, is being really thankful.
Here's to 35 more.
The dinner party was an interesting one. It included a Chinese couple, a Chinese and properly Virginian couple, an Irish and Irish-American couple, an Irish and Korean couple and their Irish-Korean-American daughter, a Polish-Irish-American and German-American couple, an German-Appalachian-American (me!) and German-American (the CFO) couple and a Czech-Argentine-Jamaican-Canadian-American and North Carolinian of undetermined ancestry couple with their son and her mother, brother and extended family, altogether totaling nineteen persons.
Turns out we were celebrating the 35th wedding anniversary of the Czech-Argentine-Jamaican-Canadian-American and North Carolinian of undetermined ancestry couple. The guy was born of Czech parents in Argentina but was raised by a Jamaican family and spent some time in Canada before attending school at North Carolina State University where he met his his North Carolinian wife-to-be on one Monday and married her the very next Monday some 35 years ago. After giving an amusing yet touching stream-of-consciousness speech about his wife and his families in Argentina, Jamaica and North Carolina, he concluded by thanking everyone from coming to help them celebrate their anniversary and, in closing, announced that he was paying for our dinners.
For nineteen people, at an upscale Japanese restaurant, for a 10+ course dinner.
That, folks, is being really thankful.
Here's to 35 more.
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