Family dinner

My father's wife Uschi was 60 last thursday, and had invited family and friends to a delicious italian dinner in Eller this saturday. We had all the restaurant for ourselves, and enjoyed a long evening of eating, drinking, and chatting.
Anna and Alex had to stay in Stuttgart studying, but everybody else was there, dressed up and happy.
Even my father! He had found the napkins saying "We're learning italian" and giving translations on the most important words and sentences, like "I love you" f.e. He enjoyed reading and repeating the new vocabulary over and over again, and we did with him. He was really nice last night, caring for others as well as he could.
Well, it's not easy, seeing he'll be 85 this May, and his body and brain are getting weaker. But still: He even saw when somebody needed an ashtray and moved as fast as he could to fetch one from the other side of the table and pass it over. He hadn't done anything like that for months. So sweet!