Thanksgiving Day

22 November, 2007 – This was our first Thanksgiving day.  Although Thanksgiving day is celebrated in the United States (Not UK), we are blessed to have a lovely American family as our neighbour & friends.  Corrina & Kelvin had invited us for traditional thanksgiving dinner.  We had delicious meal, ie pumpkin pie, green bean cosserole, mashed potatoes, homemade rolls, roast chicken.  It was a wonderful and enjoyable night.

‘In the United States, Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks, traditionally to God, for the things one has at the end of the harvest season. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. Thanksgiving Day Festival commemorates the feast held by the Pilgrim colonists and members of the Wampanoag people at Plymouth in 1621. On this day people express gratitude to God for his blessings and give thanks to dear ones for their love & support. Feasting with family is an integral & most delightful part of Thanksgiving Day celebrations.’

First Day at School

The Evening Telegraph – 22 November, 2007 (Thursday)

 

The local newspaper published reception class photos in Peterborough.

Bonfire Night

3 Nov 2007 – We celebrated the Bonfire night in Peakirk this evening.  It was nice to see the Bonfire, fireworks and of course, children were so happy to see their friends in the field.

“Hundreds of years ago there was a plot to kill King James I by a conspirator, Guy Fawkes, who loaded up the cellar below the House of Lords in Parliment with barrels of gun powder.  An insider leaked out the secret to a friend and the king found out about it, so they found Guy and they took him to the Tower of London and tortured him horribly.  Today they celebrate the fact that the king was saved by burning huge bonfires with effigies of Guy Fawkes as a reminder of how he was tortured and shoot off fireworks to remember the failed blowing up of the king.”
 

Happy Halloween

31 Oct 2007 – This was our first Halloween and YH & YX were very excited about it.  Although Halloween was originated from America, but it’s very popular in our village.  ‘Trick or Treating’ started about 5.30pm.  Children get dressed in costumes and go door to door and get ‘treats’ (sweets).  YH & YX went with Molly, Sam and Catherine (very good leader) while Sarah and I were keeping an eye on them. Danny was stationed at home to do the ‘sweet’ duty.  We finished walking at about 8pm.  After that, we joined ISE holloween party at Corrina’s house. It’s fun! 

Our halloween’s decoration

Little ‘witch’ and ‘skeleton’

Trick or Treating at Corrina’s house

Scotland Vacation

20 – 26 Oct 2007 –  Danny had chosen Scotland as our first vacation since we came to UK.   17 years ago, Aberdeen was the place where he spent 2 years studied in University and did part-time work. 

We started our journey by taking GNER train at 9.55am and we reached Aberdeen at 6pm.  It was a long 8 hours train ride! But, the scenery along the journey did compensate us. 

We spent a lot of time traveling in car as well.  We drove 650 miles in 5 days.  We had a very good Chinese meal and Dim Sum in Aberdeen.  We visited Danny’s university and places like where he lived, worked, get supper and beer :-)   Then, we headed to Inverness. Along the way, we visited the Official Loch Ness Exhibition at Drumnadrochit, where it presented the photographic evidence and wide variety of scientific explanations about the Sea Monster “Nessie”.  We also visited Urquhart Castle before stopped at Inverness for a night.  The next day, we drove along Loch Ness, and off we went to the highland and Isle of Skpe.  We stopped at Potree for a night and had seafood dinner.   I felt ill after the dinner and my face turned ‘red’.  I don’t think I’m allergy to Seafood.  Luckily, I recovered the next morning.  We spent 2 nights in Fort William, one of the major towns on the west coast.  It located at the foot of Ben Nevis, Britain’s hightest mountain .  One of it’s famous attractions is the Nevis Range Gondola, which is a ski centre as well.  We took gondola (cable car) up to 2150ft on the north face of Aonach Mor, the eighth highest mountain in Britain. Danny managed to climbed to be peak without any preparation.  
 
We were very lucky to had good weather in Scotland. Sunshine & Blue Sky. It got very chilly at night and in the morning though, it dropped to 2-3 degree. We seen beautiful mountains, lakes, castle, and the scenery was beautiful in autumn.  I must said YH & YX were very well-behaved kids as they had been sitting in the car for the whole day without any entertainment.

17 Years ago !!!!

and now….

 

17 years ago!!!

and Now…..!