Many of you know that my sister got married at the beginning of Oct. I will just leave it at the "beginning of Oct" because according to me she got married the 7th but to her and the rest of my family it was the 6th :)
She was nice enough to have an evening wedding so that I could attend in the morning and not in middle of the night-I got up at 5:40am and biked to my friend Gina's house, so that I could watch the wedding with someone! We hooked up my computer to her TV and sat back on beanbags to watch the wedding! I bet none of you have ever sat on a beanbag during a wedding...
Unfortunately they couldn't hear me too well (actually they might have thought that was a good thing), but I could see and hear them just fine! I also could hear my family in MN. The wedding took place in Guatemala, so they had two computers- one to skype with Thailand and one to skype with Minnesota.
2 continents,
3 time zones,
2 hemispheres,
3 countries,
2 languages
(even though I was in Thailand I spoke English to them).
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| Getting ready to watch the wedding.... |
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| Ok so this isn't "my view" but here we are with the bride and groom on the other side of the world! |
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| My sister and I...while waiting for the pastor.... |
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| The TV, computer and me :) |
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| They missed the memo to look at the camera! |
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| Praying- Thai style |
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| See us in the corner?!?! |
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| So happy.... |
Some of my favorite parts were listening to my dad pray for Fernando and Erica and my nephews singing "Here comes the Bride" at the top of their lungs. To think that they were in MN and I was skyping with someone in Guatemala is pretty cool. Oh technology :)
That is so cool, Karla. I'm glad you got to "be there." Congratulations to Erica.
ReplyDeleteHe SO looks like he belongs in your family!
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ReplyDeleteThey look like such a cute couple! Glad technology could allow all of you to be 'together' for the wedding!
ReplyDeleteThanks for my first peek at the wedding!
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ReplyDeleteThis is probably a very strange comment.. but here goes. My daughter recently moved to Thailand and is teaching in Bangkok. We always have Lefse at Christmas so I decided to Google Thailand and Lefse and I got your Blog! (by the way, it made my day!). Anyway, I would love to have some Lefse sent to her for Christmas. I live in PA and usually order my Lefse from Mrs. Olsens (I laughed when I saw that reference in your blog entry). Would you be willing to send me your boss's email address so I may ask her about getting some Lefse made for my daughter? This is her first Christmas away from home and I think she would be thrilled to have Lefse in Thailand!
Thanks,
Mary-Ellen Madigan
mea1@psu.edu or membylake@aol.com
PS Abby (my daughter) works at Phra Mae Maree Sathorn School in Bangkok.
I wrote you an email awhile back....we made lefse today. We are quite a way from Bangkok but let me know if you want me to try to (mail?!?!) any to you daughter... Is she close to the airport?
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