carlyn's apartment
pumpkin pie filling from scratch
manther and her milking boots
carlyn did mama johnston proud
candied yams, willa's specialty
thanksgiving will always be my favorite holiday
our international guests' first thanksgiving
playtime
booptime
courtesy of s. ram
denis and eugen, carlyn's sweet roommates: keep her safe, you two
the rhine
our last stop
pointing to her small town of vallendar
her small town of vallendar
in cologne to visit laura
american invasion
our wonderful hostess...who loves california
lovers' locks on the bridge
our first christmas market, painfully charming
alluring
who can resist
never gets old
miss you already
Vallendar, Germany had a substantial population increase when Willa, Samantha, and I visited our sweet Carlyn to celebrate my most beloved holiday, Thanksgiving. With thoughts of things-missed-from-home becoming more vivid with the arrival of the holiday season, I found my girls' enthusiasm to create an entirely homemade feast fit for royalty incredibly reassuring. And quite the feast it was. Phenomenal, really. For the rest of the weekend, Carlyn herded her little flock around the quaint town and eventually to the big city setting of Cologne wherein our hearts sang as we sipped spiced wine, nibbled on market savories and sweets, and took in the twinkling sights like one big multiracial, jet-setting family. We really could have been together anywhere in the entire world and still have been just as elated. And that is something for which I will be eternally grateful.
Beautiful as always. Whats this with the "lover's locks"?
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You will be home this same month! ECSTATIC.