Thanksgiving 2018
The weather was brilliant but cool, so we ate indoors this year. Another wonderful celebration with family, friends, and friends of Baturyn. These are the pictures of our celebration of Canadian Thanksgiving.
Our famous group shot. There are a couple more down below of slightly different set ups. Again, we captured almost everybody.
The colours were in their prime and their had been rain recently.
The contrast with the blue is always a marvel
Combination of fall colours with the green underbrush is mesmerizing
Sasha and Fedir's tree for good luck
Sunlight shimmering off the ozero
The ozero was calling out for a final swim
But I did not go in
Lush forest has reclaimed most of Baturyn, which used to be farmland
A wonderful combination of maples, birches, eastern hemlock, pine, spruce, poplar, fir, oak. The boreal forest!
The Motria is a good size for us
Esme pitching in to serve
No coke, PEPSI!
The carver-masters
Golden turkeys
Nothing like horseplay with knives!
Salo with garlic is always our first course
Taras and Mychajlo did a great job carving
We end up serving a lot of food!
Melania bring her normal happy self
The food table was loaded!
People waited patiently knowing that we were not going to run out of food
Its a great time to catch up with friends we have not seen in a while
Roman, Charlene, Sandra, and John got to socialize
The next generation was there
And the generation plus 1/2 was there
Checking on important mesages
Students from Spain were there
I like that hockey jersey!
Lida and Bohdan. Katrusia does not look like she approves!
Dorotka was in fine form
Ostap was enjoying himself
Diana was getting very warm
Larysa concentrated on her food
Yummy portions!
So many people help to make it a fun event
The amount and variety of food is staggerring
Kids were getting ready for our group shot
Take 1!
Take 2!
Yurko is looking good in his retirement. Actually, 2 retired dudes!
Wolodymyr and Lida enjoying the bonfire afterwards
Mychajlo brought his guitar
Orest was warming up his vocal chords
We sang and sang and sang
Modern sing alongs using lyrics on phones
Mychajlo got everyone going
We had good wood this year for the fire
Those cool October nights are fun by a warm fire
Some people even brought wool hats out
Faces lit up by the fire
Peter was grooving
Olesia in a sparks show
The maestro sings!
We had a good crowd for the fire
With lots of good humour
Mr. Roman was in good spirits
Zenko making sure to get the words right
And now we wait for our 2019 celebrations, same time and same place! Come one, come all, and celebrate wit hus.