Thanksgiving

We packed a lot in to six days in the DC area. It was so much fun to see everyone and hang out with Kyla. The pictures are on Flickr, but here's a sampling. In spite of having the camera in my pocket when we saw Iva and Paige on Wednesday, I forgot to take it out, so we will just have the memories and no pictures for that.

Here we are in the tasting room at Wisteria Vinyard. The mural behind Moussa shows his village in Lebanon and was painted by a local artist from a photo. Very cool!

There seems to be some kind of Thanksgiving tradition among the children of the cousins to gang up on Dan. He does a good act of seeming to enjoy it.

Dara and Kyla pose before touring the vineyard. And what a vineyard it was. Man, what a labor of love.

Loved this picture of Keith and Francesca.

We managed to get 21 people (I think) all jammed into one room for the big Thanksgiving feast. I believe I have a picture of everyone somewhere, although for many it amounts to the back of a head.

Here is Dara with her old school buddy Vicki Binstock (nee Baum). We met for lunch on Friday.

When we went to see the terra cotta soldiers in DC, we ate lunch at Founder Farmers. I ordered what was billed by the waiter as a Virginia tradition. Yes, that is fried chicken and waffles, with a side of macaroni and broccoli. That was gravy next to it, not maple syrup.

Here we are in front of the terra cotta soldiers exhibit at the National Geographic Museum. We rode the Metro down with Keith, Kirsti, Dan, and Kayla on Saturday. It was very well done and interesting.