Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's quite a birthday bash, Nathan, but I guess 60 is a milestone. Nice people shots and great looking food! Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 11/5/2019 12:42 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > I am posting this mini blog from yesterday at Copenhagen airport, waiting > for my flight home. The nine images are from yesterday in my hometown > Aarhus, where my best Lars celebrated his 60th birthday with an ?open > house? in a rented facility, with about 40 guests in attendance, starting > around 3:30 pm and ending around 11 pm?very civilised hours, really. > > The day began with the usual rain: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-vCX5PXf/A > > But that did not stop Lars?s partner Winnie from going to the bakery to > buy fresh bread and other goodies, and she also decorated the front door > per Danish tradition?we use our flag a lot in celebrations like this: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-JcGxMMD/A > > We then sat down to enjoy the birthday breakfast: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-pwXSz4t/A > > Around 2 p.m. we drove to the place where the party was going to be and > set everything up. The crucial supplies arrived about an hour later: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-QLsCXqn/A > > Lars and I share the love of good beer, so we had 50 liters of Westmalle > Dubbel and 50 liters of Sierra Nevada Torpedo, more than enough for 40 > people, ten of whom were children: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-5QdQHtL/A > > But man does not live by beer alone, so we also had an impressive spread > of various sausages, including some Spanish lomo I brought, as well as > deer, wild boar, lamb, and more mundane beef and pork (and some vegetarian > ones too): > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-txXDHP4/A > > Lars?s daughter Klara gave a wonderful speech: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-c6XL4C2/A > > But the absolute high point was when Winnie, who is a professional opera > singer, performed two arias for us, and especially for Lars of course: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-q8VXXbv/A > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-zCpdg3w/A > > A wonderful time was had. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >