Yesterday

 80 years old today, on the 24th of September, the father in law gave a dinner for his relatives. Being a son in law, be allowed to accompany his daughter to the festivities. 

The venue is an Italian restaurant of some repute in a Munich suburb,  and the company gathered there would fulfil the expectations of any person wishing to make a film on such occasions, The four daughters, all older than they would like to be, one elegant, one downright crazy, another content and one who was always caught on the edge of the world which she had wanted to take part in, the sons in law only one present ,white haired and silent, not knowing how to react to this family gathering. The other three in laws had fallen by the wayside sometime, and are no longer companion to the daughters. 

The grandchildren three, a boy, and two women make up that classification. The young woma is reserved and elegant, the other in her mid thirties makes a brassy impression, all polished and shiny trying to imitate gold. She has employed every single cosmetic aid for enhancement, and enough would have been less. The son of the white haired one is the youngest grandchild, and he is silent, and he is worried about social commitments outside of this family circle, his girlfriend and the companions from school. Today is Christopher Street day, and it is important too. Why does his grandfather have to have his birthday on Christopher street day?

Her husband is a loud mouthed man of Turkish descent, arms covered with tattoo symbolism, a man who never ever accepts his position as being wrong. He shouts unexpected comments across the whole gathering. A person who feels himself to be a leader.

The two children and the two dogs are with them, The children, dark haired and respectable, the dogs revolting small yapping things that get carried about the place in a basket.

It would have made a great picture.

After the meal, a sixty kilometre drive to return the son to his commitments. And then back again, to the grandfathers house, and more festivities

This was yesterday, and the chatter with the all the in-laws consumed the rest of the day.