Carolina Christmas, Part 1

   

 

 

December 23 & 24

 

Leaving Seattle... and a parting shot of Mt. Rainier a few minutes out of Seattle...

 

 

Changing jets in Atlanta, arrival at Charlotte airport, and back at my parent's home...  "picking" up where we last left off...

 

 

Christmas Eve at Thompson Manor, in the Farmwood section of Charlotte...

 

Brother Brian... this happened to be the first shot made with my new digital camera, the Pentax Optio S4...

 

 

Will and Ryan, my nephews... the sons of Sister Jan and Engineer Matt...

 

       

 

 

 

Marda & Bill Hamilton, my brother-n-law Matt's parents...

 

 

Christmas Eve dinner...

 

       

 

 

 

Exchanging gifts...

       

 

Mother and Father...

 

   

 

 

I received two Lewis & Clark DVD's, one from Mother and Father and one from Sister Jan and Matt... I also received a fine cast iron Japanese tea pot from Mother and Father...

 

 

The family gathered around the old piano for a few Christmas songs...

 

       

 

     

 

 

My good friend Hiromi-san in Seattle sent my parents a string of "get well" feather beads...