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Orlando Christmas: Christmas - Day 5 (click once on any photo to
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How many cooks can fit in Wei-Shen’s kitchen to prepare a dish
for the Christmas potluck lunch? We made a chicken with yu
choy (a Chinese vegetable) stir fry and a beef with broccoli and bell peppers
stir fry.
Vincent Howard (Wei-Shen’s friend and business partner,
second from left in the photo below) and his wife Deb (fifth from left) always
host a potluck lunch at their lake front house every year for Thanksgiving and
also for Christmas. The delectable spread featured roast beef, honeybaked ham,
scalloped potatoes, carrots, green bean casserole, Chinese stir fry, salad,
fruit tray, and rolls.
Rather
amazing that we all
fit comfortably on the huge back porch overlooking the lake.
Guy,
one of the guests (wearing the turquoise shirt in the second photo), brought a
homemade game for us all to play (first photo below). One at a time each guest
pulls on one of the ribbons coming out of the top of the toilet paper roll to
see which tag it is connected to. That tag then
matches up with one of the gift boxes for the guest to open. The goal is to get
the large Santa tag which corresponds to the “grand” prize in the gold gift
box. But Ron managed to dash everyone’s hopes when he
pulled the Santa tag very early in the game and won a $25 Visa gift card
(second photo below).
Lauren’s gift box contained an elf, Li’s had a bag of
chocolates, and Wei-Shen’s had a snowman headband!
We
spent the remainder of the day back at the condo where
the kids opened Christmas presents that Aunt Choo, who couldn’t make the trip,
had mailed from Canada.
Lauren
also had a gift for the out of town guests that she
made herself, a knitted flamingo for Connie and Ron and an eagle for us, along
with a bouquet of origami flowers. We all enjoyed Wei-Shen’s Christmas Eve
violin performance so much that we asked him to play some more and he happily
obliged - click this
link to view a sampling of the Thais Meditation that he played.
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