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What a lovely Aussie Thanksgiving we had!!! My family and I thought that coming to Australia meant missing Thanksgiving this year... But not a chance!! The McLeod family made a true holiday out of it! There was beautiful food, wonderful company, and an evening of music. A truly gorgeous night! A company of NINE for this Thanksgiving, you will see in the picture above (left to right): Mom, me, David McLeod, Jacqui Barr (who took care of all us kids one week!), Brendon McLeod, Nora, Dad, Jessica McLeod, and Sharynne McLeod was taking the photo. :D Beautiful!!!
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Sharynne and Mom pose for a lovely picture :)
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Look how empty my plate is already! This was only about five minutes into the dinner... :D
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Brendon and Jessica entertained us with funny quizzes such as "Have you ever touched an electric fence that is clearly marked as such?" And of course the answer was "yes." :)
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After dinner, we all retired to the livingroom, where we enjoyed musical performances from Jessica (piano and clarinet), Nora (violin), Brendon (trombone and piano), and I played the violin and French horn. While the soloists performed, everyone else joined in with instruments such as aboriginal maracas, an African finger piano (I think they are called...), and a digeridoo!! Haha, great fun!
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Jessica played many lovely songs, including the ever-beautiful classic, Amazing Grace. :)
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Nora played her lovely piece, Gossec Gavotte :)
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Brendon chose an exciting excerpt from the Lion King, "I Just Can't Wait to be King." :)
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La Folia was my piece.
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And then David graced me with a French horn duet. :D
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After the music, we played a trivia game. On your right you see the Pink Team (boo!) and to the left is the Blue Team (yay!!!). We learned a lot about Australia. In 1970, there were approximately 68 million sheep! (Or something like that... teehee) :D
Thanks so much to the McLeod family for giving us one of the most special (and oddly, most American...) Thanksgivings ever! :D
2 comments:
What an amazing time you all are having ... rock stars!!! All of you.
I am SOOO jealous of your suntans........
Love,
Sherry
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