Dad took me to lunch at a restaurant at a penzion in a small town called Bytca. Later, we went to a picnic dinner at the "old house," the house in Bytca where Anna grew up in the days of Communist rule. It's an old farmhouse surrounded by tall trees that make it look like an island of greeen where it sits in a small sea of highway construction. Ernest and Ondrej where there, and Eva was barbecuing a lot of food. I met Anna's brother Stephan, who is quite a character. Ondrej was entertaining us with his jokes. Louis was there with his family. He translated Ondrej's jokes for us. I'll paraphrase one of them:
"When Gorbachev was the premiere of the Soviet Union, ten of his general died all at once from eating poisoned mushrooms. After the KGB investigated, they reported that three of the generals had also been shot in the head. When Gorbachev asked the KGB about those three generals, they said, 'Oh, those were the ones who refused to eat the mushrooms.'"
I filled up with food quickly, so when Christina and Steven were ready to go back to the penzion in Sulov, I went back with them. We ended the evening by watching the DVD of King Kong that I had brought with me.
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