First off... Happy Mother's Day to all our moms. Take the rest of the day off!
Went to a rather unusual wedding yesterday featuring the daughter of our pastor as the bride and included the lighting of over 2000 candles by 38 candle lighters, a foot washing ceremony and a fertility dance performed by a troupe of Rawandan tribespeople. Not your standard wedding fare! I caught this shot of the candle lighters coming down from the balcony with their lit candles. The time exposure gives it a rather ghostly appearance.



Our jetsetting daughter Sandi is off traveling again. This time she is in Quebec City where she will be attending a five week French immersion course at L'Universitie de Laval on a scholarship that pays for everything except air fare. We saw her off at the airport at midnight last night and had a call from her this evening, safe but exhausted, partly from the 11 hours spent in planes and airports but mainly from trying to understand the French spoken by her host family. She is not allowed to use any English under penalty of expulsion so she is going to find it truly challenging for the next several weeks. Lots of "repetez, s'il vous plait". Send her an encouraging message at sspanndexx@hotmail.com mais vous devez écrire en français seulement, svp.

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