We came together for Thanksgiving, 2007 - Werge, Miller, Canas, Whitehead, Gramajo, and Kanashiro - in a house on a canal in Key Largo. It was our fifth year in our roving Thanksgiving, hanging out together as a family in a part of the country where one of us lives. So this year we headed to south Florida where Tom's in law school (Florida International) and Halie is helping to guide the fortunes of a major mall.
There were a few new faces, in addition to the egret who joined us for dinner. There was Hervin Gramajo, Robin's step son, who practiced his pool shots in the upper game room.
Sharing the turkey was Kenzo Kanashiro, currently of Miami, the son of our Peruvian compadres, Hillary and Tito, who were godparents to Ingrid. Our friendship was one of the joys of our four year sojourn in Peru. Tom and Kenzo were born within several months of one another...as their baby pictures, in matching boxes, will attest. And now they paddle their own kayaks, if not canoes, on a Thanksgiving canal ride.
Though Tom was studying for his law school exams some of the time, not everyone took that same approach to the unfolding of the day's events.
Ingrid became intent at times with the jigsaw puzzle, but not enough to grab the bike or the kayak from time to time for a spin.
Robin enjoyed the beaches...here he comes out of the sea from a dip. The underlying geology of the Florida keys makes for shallow shorelines. Charlotte created shell art in the sands of Fort Lauderdale on our final day.
And while we made several attempts to capture us all in one shot, using various time settings on our cameras, we have to make do, at this point, with those who were not running back and forth between the cameras and the group. We did loop off a few tops of heads, but it was all in the work of a vacation.
And here is hoping that the kayaks and the deck chairs are waiting till next year.
