So over the past couple of weeks I had been messaging this couchsurfer Djali, who is 1/4 Persian and 3/4 Czech, about getting together and cooking some Persian food. Since the weather started to get nice we decided on a picnic. So we had the picnic on Saturday! It was a success. I cooked the Persian things (Kookoo Sabzi and Adas Polo) and Djali made some meat. We had the picnic on this hill in Djali’s neighborhood. There were many bottles of wine, including a bottle from Russian River that our friend David brought! See video of David below, talking about how to bring cool wine to a picnic. He’s French. Our picnic was quite international: we had a person from Portugal, Germany, Russia, France, Czech Republic and three Americans (one of unknown origins, one of Greek nationality and one of Iranian nationality – me). After the picnic we crammed six people into an elevator to Djali’s apt. and we got stuck. Paul, the artist, and Petr, this couchsurfer from Moscow, figured out a way to get us out though… after being in there for like 5-10 minutes. Good job guys!