Another Celebration

We have just celebrated our 44th wedding anniversary.  And what a celebration it was.  We went to a local taverna for a quiet family night.  It turned into a night of music and dancing 

What we didn't know was that the taverna was having a live greek music night.  And what nobody knew was that at the long table where visitors were celebrating a coming wedding there was a saxaphone player, with his sax, and a professional singer.  

It started off with the usual greek songs which the wedding party all got up to dance to and then the dynamic french singer stood up and picked up the pace.  The greek singer who was running the music night knew a whole range of songs and together they gave us a concert of italian, beatles, toe tappers and back to greek  .  The saxaphone player began his  mellow accompaniment and the taverna erupted in cheers and clapping.  In days of yore there would have been some plate smashing too.

There was cake of course

Enough for all of us, friends at the table next to us and quite a bit leftover for the taverna staff to have a taste

My three girls dancing a hasapiko (butcher's dance)

K joins in. 

The paper napkins on the floor are thrown at the dancers.  In an Athens nightclub it would have been baskets of carnations

I was forced to dance as well.   But you aren't going to see that video!