Friday, November 25, 2005

Happy Thanksgiving!

We celebrated our first Thanksgiving as a married couple here in Hong Kong with some GREAT friends.





mmm...dessert!



The Sutherlands...


and the Wilcoxes...

...leaders and hosts of our care group. We first got to know them by getting to know their kids through the youth group. :)

And here's our little family picture:


We're having our second Thanksgiving dinner tonight and will post more pictures soon.

In the meantime, here are a few pictures from the International Care Ministries Banquet we were involved with last week. Check out Pinky's xanga for more information about the organization. The banquet raised almost HK$3 million for the poorest of the poor in the slums of the Philippines.

Here's the 5.02 carat diamond ring we auctioned off in the live auction:


(I can never figure out how to take pictures of diamonds! This picture obviously doesn't do it justice...)

The banquet was held at the Marriott. About 350 - 400 people attended:


Here we are with Tobin and Christina (they did our pre-marital counseling last fall):

(By the way, because I was so swamped with auction committee stuff right before the event, I didn't have time to get something to wear! Well, the night before the event, T comes home from work and surprises me with this dress! He had dragged a colleague of his (single guy) during their coffee break to the maternity store. It fit perfectly. :) Is my husband great or what??)

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