We left China and went back to the States for most of November to visit friends and family, watch our NY Giants and Notre Dame football teams fall apart, and do more shopping/planning for the major renovation we’re doing on our “mobile home” in the spring.

For Thanksgiving week, we took almost the whole family to Dominican Republic for their Christmas present. Our kids and their spouses/partners, grandkids, foster/step-kids total 29 and 26 of them made it (Erik, Mikey and Tom couldn’t make it). Debra somehow found a 13 bedroom villa on the beach that was perfect for us. Thank goodness we had a great cook and staff to handle the shopping, cooking, and cleaning!

It was a glorious week of swimming, surfing, games and sun. A great way to spend Thanksgiving.