Sausage addendum

I will try to get some pictures from the picnic; it was as beautiful as ever...a much much smaller group than usual, and this somehow seems to be inversely correlated to the amount of wine consumed.  On and On it went with all kinds of bizarre and unnatural occurrences like Ellie jumping into very very cold mountain water and daintily swimming to the waterfall like it was Hawaii. Thomas thought I had gone mad, or been poisoned by alcohol. Finally someone realized that the bus (the only way to get to the spot, no cars allowed) would stop running soon. So we somehow got all the things together and ran with them to the stop and the friend with the wonderful house did the only sensible thing and invited everyone back for a drink. In the meantime, K took it upon herself to set up a very small bar at the bus stop like a good Schneider, just in case. They are sort of like the boy scouts.

We bowed out before some other party...but I am relieved to report that even the locals were affected by this..one claims she went to bed at nine and when she woke in the middle of the night she was no longer entirely sure of a just and merciful creator. (I am paraphrasing) K said, oh that is just them, they are not used to picnics like we are.

But here is of course the obvious coda to the whole story. The next night was the pre-aranged movie night where we watch something I gave K (I send her movies for her b day, no theater in Lech), and this time twenty people came (!) . That's right: me in charge of feeding 20 other human beings simultaneously. K said just make sandwiches! nothing big...I of course wrote to one Amy R of San Francisco Ca, my food psychologist who said, yes go with what she said, but make aioli and four salads. Ok....done. It went alright, but frankly I am out of my pay grade buying food for twenty. I have no idea.
So....few more hours here, then bonanza in London where all bloggers will be, so no blog til the ship sails with us and little Luis.
Pictures as soon as I can get them from the new atheist..(ie the woman described above) she showed them to me at movie night and at least half were taken upside down. She kept flipping her Iphone around as if it was the phone's mistake.
She is my new fav.