Big spender

Well, unexpectedly the birth-day yesterday turned out a nice day. Four of them halfsiblings met at the beach, have a look:

Deanna, Lance, Eylene & Sabrina

And the two little ones played in the sand... ;-)

Sabrina & Alyson that would be... *lol*
referring to 'the little ones'

The evening ended at a nice (loud and crowded) restaurant, with great food. Which brings me to the big spending. I have a feeling that it was expected of us to invite everybody, which we didn't/couldn't. I mean, I would've loved to give everybody like at least 150 bucks and pay for all the food and buy this and that, but come on, we live in the real world, right? So we brought everybody German candy, which is without food additives and delicious, but, ya know...

Peter, Drew & Eylene

Just to name some numbers... the flights alone cost us 3300 Euros, 1200 Euros for the rental car, the hotel in San Franciso (3 nights) was 400 Euros, all in all we spent like 10,000 Euros on this trip, which is about 15,000 Dollars. With about 150 bucks per night for a motelroom, and the gasoline, and the food... you can probably figure out for yourself that there can't possibly be much financial scope to make it through 34 days. I wouldn't call it a small budget, but it's tight. We gotta think about every expense here twice. So I'm happy for everyone who doesn't leave in a huff but understands... Thank you. Plus can we please keep in mind, that I'm retired and live of a low pension age 45 to begin with?
So I thought it would just be fair to everybody pay for themselves, wasn't it? And IF I'll treat someone to something I'll let him/her know in advance, at least that's how it works with the rest of the world.

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