...given by a wonderful family. Alexander and Marie-Angeline have a bunch of delightful children, and a beautiful home exuding gracious hospitality, and invited 50 guests to mark Alexander's 50th birthday! It was a magnificent evening: the youngest child led us in Grace, there was a delicious dinner at candlelit tables, speeches, music - Alexander's brothers sang a song composed in his honour and recited a beautiful poem, the children presented a charming and very amusing power-point with scenes from over the years...oh, it was all enormous fun, and there was such a spirit of goodwill and unity and friendship...this is the kind of evening that is a gift, a glimpse of how things ought to be...
We left at a very late hour, or, rather, an early one, because it was into the first hours of Sunday when we drove home...
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