Thanksgiving in Ely

Thanksgiving 2009.

Ely, England.

Hosted by the incredible, kind, generous, loving, warm, amazing Zimmerman family.

Great food. Great people. Great time.

In England, towns are not determined by geography or population. A town is a town if it houses a cathedral. And boy, does Ely have a cathedral! It is gorgeous and huge. It was built 900 years ago and took 100 years to complete. It was inspiring and beautiful to walk through this building and around the grounds.

Katherine's comment as she stood on a huge stone to take this picture, "Oh, so this is how it feels to be your height!"

Love the smiles outside...

...and love the smiles inside!

Here are the troups waiting to pray and feast. It was fun to have our American posse together for the holiday. I think there were about 30 people gathered at the Zimmerman's home--it felt like a big family party. I love these people!

Liz had this cute bib for Talmage. It was such a fun first Thanksgiving for him because he could actually enjoy the grub.

He ate SO much. Here he is chowing down on a delicious homemade roll.

And of course he had some turkey. Yum!

(On his face you can see the remnants of sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes and gravy. He loved them all.)

Justin carving that BIG bird!

The sister missionaries in our ward are awesome.

Sister Milner from Canada and Sister Garcia from Spain.

Verlan and Katherine. Such a great picture of them.

AJ saw me with the camera and kept saying, "Take a picture of me!" and then he would pose. He is such a cute kid.

Jim, Talmage and Dan Kim. Dan and Jim are in the same program at Cambridge.

Some of us had a little too much fun!
Don't worry, this is Ang with sparkling cider.

The always smily Mr. Mason.

The kids went CRAZY with the whip cream. They had mustaches, eyebrows, designs, etc. all over their face.

These boys are so cute! Eli is holding T and Maxwell.

Fat and happy :)

Do you see those cheeks? Someone ate well today.

Thank you Justin and Liz. We had such a great time!

Shout out to the USA:

Happy Thanksgiving to every member of our sweet family.

We missed you today and hope your Thanksgiving was full of warmth, love and seconds!

Today, and always, we are thankful for YOU.