VIP PARTY!!!!

Portraits of Very Important People



Larsen and I have been planning a VIP party. The VIP room is the luxurious room in the back of the camper. By room, I mean bed from wall to wall, with a curtain, and the ability to sit up or even stand. We decided we are going to throw a VIP party, with fancy drinks, and invitations. The invitations went to Prisco, Rahel, and Bjorn, and included:

-state of the art light system (which is actually this headlam that has a strobe setting)
-delicious ice cold vodka drinks (until this point, we had been drinking wine and beer, no ice. And...I LIKE COLD BEVERAGES...so the ice was of utmost importance)
-phantastich mode... aka fantastic fashion
-XXX and non-XXX cinema (played on the laptop)


Now for the setting- we went more south on the Adriatic Coast. Senj is a small touristy town, much of which is encompassed by a fortress-style wall. We camped in this sort of parking lot on the water, with a rocky beach and a sort of boardwalk. I built a really good dam or cooler in the water with rocks, so even after a few hours when the water rose, some of the beverages I'd put in were still secure and cold. I just wanted to make sure that we had cold beverages, just in case we could not find ice.

And finding ice in this town in Croatia, oh boy, what a feat. I searched 13 places and finally, after some inquiry and at least an hour, the gas station had bags of ice. WOO HOO! The VIP party, as are all of my parties, and contingent upon ice cold fancy cocktails. And so, I wrote up a VIP drink menu, which we taped outside of the VIP window, where we would be serving our guests. All were available sprudlen (fizzy)

Eyes of The World: vodka with this orange, carrot, lemon juice. Named because it said “For Better Sight” on the carton.
Red Ruby Slipper- Special blood-red Orangina with vodka
Hawaiin Dreamcatcher- Pineapple juice and vodka. By far, the most popular, fortunately since we had lots of pineapple juice
Blue something blahblah- I forget the name now, but pomengranate and blueberry juice with vodka and club soda)
Prosecco
Cabernet Sauvignon

Not on the menu, but served that evening were:
Bluebird, Bluebird, Through My Window- Prosecco with a splash of the blueberrypomengranate juice

Absynth

I was the dj for the night- Afro-Cuban Jazz Project, Jazz Mandolin Project, and Amon Tobin. Larsen cooked this Swiss food that was great, and I did the gorgonzola, cream cheese and scallion dip I love. We dined as the sun was setting over the sea; as all people should when they are VIP.

This older Austrian couple hung with us for a long time. I talked to the bottle blond biker-ish lady a bit; she was nice enough. The guy I did not talk to. But apparently, he had made some comments to Rahel that did not please her to say the least. And by the end of the smash hit VIP evening, I realized he was one of those older guys who is gay but will never ever be able to admit it to himself. The next day, they had left before we awoke, and he had left a letter thanking us on the camper. Included was his business card...............massage therapist.

The day after the VIP party, I ate grilled squid stuffed with cheese and ham. I ate it, and it was not horrible, but when I think of it now, I am grossed out. Honestly, the food in Croatia has not been that good. And I am not picky, really. Much of it seems to be a strange combination or variation of dishes typical to the countries surrounding it. And in addition to the dishes not being cheap (expensive, actually, especially for what they are), they give you bread (which is usually not good bread) and they they charge you for it, when you do not ask for it and do not eat it. So, not impressed. And at one place, you could tell the guy was really trying to get us to order expensive crap. This was the same place that charged like 5 or 6$ for a large mug of coke.