Trump family held invitation-only Easter Egg hunt at Mar-a-Lago

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34. Great stories....

I have a photo from that 1985 trip of me and 6 members of the Leningrad Philharmonic ( two of them percussionists) in the then the Europskaya hotel across the street, after a concert during which they played the Shostakovich 5th Symphony, which, as a former timpanist, I have played many times since then. Ok... it gets better.....

There are 6 empty bottles of vodka on the table.. Long story, as you can imagine, sneaking past the KBG floor monitors, me buying the booze at the "dollar bar,' fighting off the 'dollar bar dolly,' etc...
Translating russian to german to english, etc....Then sneaking them out of the 'foreigners' hotel'....
So, One of the percussionists and I stayed in touch for a few months... then nothing... time passes...............

THEN, about 6 months ago, low and behold, we found each other on FACEBOOK !!! Of course we both remembered that night very well... well up to a point.LOL! We are both now retired.

Then in February this year the St Petersburg Philharmonic came to Rochester, NY near where I live, on tour.. They were playing......Shostakovich 5th. !! So I went to the concert and met with the percussionists after the concert in a local pub.. They, of course, knew my old friend from 1985. we drank many vodka toasts to him, to Russian music, to St Petersburg, to anything we could think of.. They were deeply touched by my love of their beautiful city.

My friend took several photos of us. When I got home and looked at them, in one, the TV was on behind us up on the wall, and right in the middle of it were Donald J Trump and Vladimir Putin !!!!!!!!!!!

I sent them all copies and they loved it.....


Life is wonderful, isn't it...