Greetings from Cloudy Chengdu
Birthday dinner was truly amazing, we had 23 family members from 4 years to 93 years old and it all made me feel very special.
I lost count at 20 courses of food...WOW, can these people eat !!!!!
There was also a huge chocolate cake with candles (she knows I LOVE chocolate cake
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But the real heart wrencher for me was when they all got up and sang "the happy Birthday" song........in perfect English...can you believe that !!! I cannot imagine how complex and difficult it was to orchestrate that piece of work, my LP must have been rushing around like a one-armed paperhanger !!!.....ever Granny at 93 years belted it out.
I was sorta feeling the effects (!!!) of a small drink or six (same as everybody else) so I gave them a rousing chorus of the Welsh National Anthem...in Welsh..as a return gift !!!
Father then decided that his contribution would be the Russian National Anthem...in Russian (as you know, he has little English but we stumble around communication in Russian together)...........and about at that time he was feeling no pain !!!!......I think he drank a whole bottle of Chinese Whiskey on his own.
From then on it all gets a bit hazy and furry around the edge...but I vaguely remember duets with "Love will go on " from Titanic, and even "twinkle twinkle little star with my little neice..........one he## of a night and eternal thanks to LP for a masterful organisation...and to my new family for their total and unconditional acceptance of me into their hearts...I was really humbled and choked.
See ya...gotta go, we are due for breakfast with some of her ex-classmates......hard life, but somebody gotta do it !!!!
David
ps...well done Rhon.....please dont be too hard with criticism of my limited vocabulary and composition skills....I do try hard, but you put the bar very high