Our quiet Thanksgiving Day lunch included our parents, our friend Doug, and Enrique and Renato, two Washburn University students from Paraguay.
Changing continents, our international Thanksgiving weekend continued Friday when Helen helped organize a traditional American wedding for friends from India. It was the 13th time I officiated a wedding ceremony. Prudhvi's and Suneeta's wedding brought people together from India, Lebanon and the Philippines.
Changing continents again, Saturday brought German-son Phil to town for a short visit. He is in the US for the final year of his masters program at Columbia University in New York. Lucky for all of us, Audrey was also in town from Taiwan. Phil and Audrey were exchange student classmates at Topeka High School in 2005. It was fun to see them together again. Kem and Christa provided a yummy lunch for all of us ... including Henry from Boulder.
Ryan returned from his California Thanksgiving in time to join Phil and the Gs for a Sunday afternoon photo.
We then shamelessly put the guys to work installing exterior Christmas decorations and carrying giant bags of leaves to the alley.
Sadly, on Monday we put Phil on an airplane for his return trip to New York. Even so, it was fun to share pieces of this quintessential US Thanksgiving Holiday with friends from 4 different continents.
Happy Thanksgiving.
1 comment:
How fun to have Phil return! What a treat! Glad you had a FAB holiday. :-)
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