What's up with Elisabeth & George?: More Wesak Parade Photos

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

More Wesak Parade Photos

Can't get enough Wesak Day photos? Here are some more. I have observations and explanations in the titles. Enjoy!

2 comments:

Caroline said...: i want to come and visit!!!
The parade looks so colourful and cheerful. I Love the dragon float, that looked dead cool!; 6/07/2008 7:31 AM
Elisabeth said...: COME VISIT US PLEASE!!!!! :) :) :) That goes for the rest of you reading also! The parade was great. I went back and looked at my album and now I wonder why I didn't put the dragon float as one of the pictures in my previous post! Ahhh so many to choose from. I had over 300 and narrowed it down to 60 something to edit, then down to the few I posted below. Thats the thing. This all takes a lot of effort because I am constantly surrounded by things to photograph and I can never narrow it down to handful to edit/post!; 6/11/2008 8:02 AM

How we're doing right now.

April 6th, 2009
Oh man, moving back home has been quite a transition! For Regin especially. It has taken him three months to return to being fully, or almost fully, potty trained. But we're home and happy to be with friends and in an environment where things are easier.

But of course, not everything is easier. George's first day back to work he learned that the company was exiting the business and he and all the other people that work on that product (including all those people he trained in Penang) were told to look for other jobs.

His last day was March 31st. No time for that cozy little 'sabbatical' though; after he finished his last day of work, his family called and told us they are coming (from Florida) for a visit on the 10th! This would be no big deal (other than being terribly exciting) if we were fully moved back in, but of course, until now, we've had VERY little motivation to fully unpack! So now we're preparing the house at warp speed!

You know, I do miss Penang. Hard to say what I miss exactly, because I know it's more than our friends there, but I feel a certain pang. And all the time we were there, other than missing family, friends, easy living, and snow, I never once actually missed 'Colorado.'

When we got back to Colorado, I expected to have a new and complete love for the place. I do appreciate some things a lot more, especially visual things. I see beauty where I didn't before. But it hasn't been the feeling of home that I expected, and I still have some of the same issues with the place. But what I do love IMMENSELY and will always love IMMENSELY is the people we have here. And it's been absolutely amazing to see how Regin has picked right back up where he left off with his loved ones here. There's no doubt in my mind that he somehow remembers them.