Last night, one of the entrepreneurship faculty members, Patricia, invited us to dinner at her home. In typical Slovenian fashion, we arrived at 7:30, drank wine until 8:30, sat down for a course of appetizers, started the main course at 9:30, and had dessert at 10:30. The food was fantastic and plentiful. The wine was as well. Her parents make their own sausage and had just completed a batch that morning...it was probably the best sausage I have ever tasted. Dessert was followed by appertifs of an herbal liqueur and absinthe. The herbal liqueur was tasty, but we're not sure why anyone in their right mind would drink absinthe on purpose.
After everyone left at midnight, Patricia conned us into opening another bottle of wine. We had stayed intending to help clean up, but (also in typical Slovenian fashion) she wouldn't let us. So, it was a late night for us old-timers (Patricia said she would invite us back for one of her "parties"...if dinner ended at 1am, we're not sure what to expect at a party). But, it was loads of fun and will be one of our more memorable evenings here.
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