A polyglot lot

This has been a very busy house for the past week. Longstanding friends, a family of five ,visited us from the USA.Their beautiful eldest daughter had her 18th birthday on Thursday. At the celebratory dinner, prepared by Amanda, we drank a toast to her and she, being trilingual, replied in English, German and Japanese. Another guest then spoke in English, French and Vietnamese. A truly global event! The day was declared such a success that the other two daughters, aged 15 and 11, have booked the same venue for their eighteenth birthdays.