Entertaining...

Well, it's over. We had the first guests over and broke in the new apartment. It went relatively well. There is always the occasional and minorly significant issues: for example, we had 8 guests and only 7 matching bowls and I forgot to get sweet relish for the potato salad. But all-in-all, it was a success. Everyone was appropriately impressed with the apartment (it IS amazing.) And the food was certainly edible, and I would say that it was good. It seemed to me that fun was had by all regardless of the single light bulbs hanging by wires in each room and the lack of decorations on the walls, and the stack of boxes in the corner that have yet to be opened. It is an odd but familiar mix of people. We are forced together by circumstance. No one really has anything in common besides those that work together, and no one seemed interested in discussing work on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. So, we made small talk, enjoyed our drinks, ate a good meal, shared cookies and brownies out on the patio overlooking the lake in one of the most beautiful places in the world, and at least half of the people there were probably wishing they were somewhere else or with someone else...but happy to be at our place because the other options are not possible today.