Thanksgiving

Our Thanksgiving has been full of celebrations. Instead of going into great detail about each one, I just thought I post a few pics to tell the story for me.


Our first celebration came in the form of a 25th Anniversary Gala at the International Christian School of Vienna. The evening was held at a local mansion (high class) and traditional Thanksgiving food served Austrian style was served!

The real highlight of the evening was getting to ... dress up! I know, I'm such a dork, but how often do you get to put on your best duds and dress up? Along with the American ambassador speaking, the Vienna philharmonic quartet playing, our Addison performed with her choir! The evening was just delightful!


On Thanksgiving day, we spent the day with team mates, eating finger foods, playing 80's music trivia (which I beat Chris at ... just for the record!), and playing the game of Life! It's such a nice blessing to be able to spend an American holiday with American friends when no family is around.

Saturday was the really big day. We hosted our Austrian friends for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. They kept taking pictures of the food. They had only seen such a meal in films! It was such a great reminder of the spirit of the original feast ... strangers in a new land celebrating with new friends.


Finally, today, we celebrated with a local house church yet another traditional Thanksgiving meal. It was a mix of Austrians and Americans and it was so much fun!

Feeling really thankful to be where I am ...