We stopped in Montreal to visit Bill and Judith Hatcher in their beautiful apartment - the greatest breakfast awaited us in the morning!
View from their balcony:
Group picture:
On the Road agayin!
It was a long road, but we had a comfy van:
Occupying ourselves during fuel stops:
Then we spent the night at Sam's home in Baltimore:
We saw his whole family - Molly and Maia (Maia and Andre had a wonderful time together):
I even saw my good pal Adarsh!
Then I ran into Sheila, her children, her friend from Seattle; I also talked to Nina and Omid via Adarsh's cellphone.
We did eventually get to Richmond. I was hoping to visit my old workplace at LandAmerica to see some of my friends - Nik, Carleen, Tanya, Annie, Jopassa, Keith, Emily, Steve, etc. but we arrived too late. So we went straight to Silent Dinner at Willow Lawn mall - a weekly meeting place for the deph and dumb. There we met Natalie, a close friend of Charlotte's:
Andre is a cutie!
I stayed at the Falconer home, watched "The Interpreter" with Midge and Rob. I rested a little, and on Saturday, the day after our arrival, I had a chance to visit Mishkin and Christian and the former's family. This is a picture of my chasing the children with the camera:
and one with the lot of us:
Another pic of Natalie & Charlotte - on the occasion of a fundraiser for a new Baha'i House of Worship to be built in Santiago, Chile:
Traveling is tiring:
but family time is so very precious - this is at my very favorite cafe just down the street from my parents' home, called Jumping J's Java:
And now, for the biggest event of our stay: a family reunion with my grandmother, her two sons and daughter (my mommy), along with their respective families, a gathering that hasn't seen its like in 6-7 years!
The silly version of the group:
Charlotte and I were dying to go shopping at Elwood Thompson, a natural/health food store. There we met Henriette, who bought us breakfast!
Just before leaving, Midge prepared a classic family dinner for the whole group, which we enjoyed in a most convivial atmosphere around a well-garnished table:
In the background of the next picture, you'll see part of a lake. Mark (front right) took Andre� and I on a boat to teach us some fishing:
Leigh, the star of the trip:
Charlotte, the center of it all:
me, the danio:
Packing for the way back was a different story...
We stayed at Sam's in Baltimore again on our way back to Quebec, where I caught Andre and Maya playing again together. It was so wonderful watching two children play so easily without even speaking the same language! (Andre speaks only French - maybe a tad bit of English)
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