Come What May: Squamish 'Diner en Blanc' 2.0

We held our second 'Diner en Blanc' last night. (You can read about the first one here:

http://cwm4.blogspot.ca/2012/06/diner-en-blanc-squamish-style.html) I was so grateful that the rain held off and we could spend the evening outside.

While in the planning stages, my co-conspirator Colleen and I decided that our secret picnic location needed two things:

1) A bit of privacy

2) A bathroom

We kicked around a few ideas for this year's secret picnic location, but we couldn't think of a spot that met those two important criteria. One day I was sitting in my garden and it hit me. The field behind our house! It was private and people could use our bathroom. Eureka!

We sent out the invitations and anxiously awaited for June 22nd's arrival. Here's what happened.....

Not only did we keep the picnic location a secret, but we kept the guest list a secret too. I asked everyone to rendezvous at our place at 6:00pm. Little did our guests know they were only going to walk 18 steps down the path behind our house to the field.

We made it!

Everyone quickly sprang into action to set up their tables, chairs, candles and flowers.

Whose idea was it to let Joe sabre a bottle of champagne?

Dinner under the 'stars'.

A secret garden.

Don't even think about it, Kevin!

Joe receives some help whipping the cream for his dessert.

'Diner en Blanc' tradition dictates that diners wave their napkins in the air after dinner to thank the police for not closing the picnic down due to drinking in public.

'Diner en Blanc' tradition also states that lighting sparklers denotes the end of dinner and the beginning of the dance. LOOK AT THOSE PATHETIC SPARKLERS! We would have been better off to light the five dollar bill I used to buy those things. (I love how the wind is blowing the balloons sideways.)