Sepp and his harem

To celebrate his 80th birthday (was on 18th), Angie's father invited a small selection of the women in his life to celebrate with him at the Steinherr Restaurant in Esting, a part of the town of Olching where Angie was born.

I won't even begin to start explaining who is who but the very youngest one is his latest grandchild born this year. Hopefully she will never have to experience what Sepp had to go through as a 10 year old.

Men were invited to join the group after the meal, for coffee & cake and allowed to drive their partners home. Sepp doesn't like competition when he's twirling on the dancefloor as in bottom right photo, with his youngest (until this year) grandchild.

Sadly Sigi's (Angie's middle sister) two boys, Tobi and Stefan were not able to come. I think they were somewhere up an Austrian mountain doing their best to drink Austria dry.

Have to say I love seeing the young (adult) children and finding out what they are up to. They are a great bunch. All seem to be enjoying life and not yet ready to put down roots and make Sepp a great grandfather.

Thank you Sepp for a great day.

I wasn't able to photograph much but I did get Bliped myself together with two more of Sepp's girls, on Angie's journal..

I did manage to Blip the Restaurant from the outside, together with a passing John Deere. Wanted to post this but Angie forbade it! :-((((

For the record, here some of the events in Sepp's life:
Born in Batschka Brestovac now part of Serbia of German descendants known as the Danube Swabians; recruited by Empress Maria Therese around 1750 to move from southern Germany to this part of her Austro-Hungarian Empire to improve the potentially rich agricultural land around the Danube, enticing them with tax priviliges and financial support.The area was transferred after the First World War to Jugoslavia.
Sepp's father was a Master Bricklayer and Sepp was later to follow in his footsteps.
The family had to flee in October 1944 from the advancing Russians & Tito partisans. Most of the catholic German speakers who remained died in the Yugoslvian concentration camps.
With horse & cart the family arrived in Austria after a two week treck and were put in a camp, the horse having to be sold and they worked for local farmers to get food.
Here Sepp was educated and started his bricklaying apprentiship. To this day he gets a tiny pension from Austria for this time.
Then in the early 50's the family moved, some relations to the USA, Sepp's father took the decision to go to Olching near Munich and the family started anew, finding a building plot and when they weren't earning money building houses for other people, they built their own, where Sepp still lives today and where Angie was raised.