Coming Home

Dear Ishees across America!

I'm sad to have missed the reunion, it sounded like a blast, so you'll just have to post lots of pictures on here! Sadly, I'm packing up and getting ready to leave Berlin, which means I have just a few more days to do lots of things. The three things at the top of my last-week-agenda here are:
1.Going to the abandoned amusement park in East Berlin. It's full of broken ferris wheels and also huge Soviet monuments.
2. Going to the Brauerai in Charlottenberg and doing a beer tasting.
3. Since this city has turned me into a painter, I am going to go to the villa where Max Lieberman (German painter from 19th century) lived and made hundreds of oil paintings. I am gonna go sit and do hundreds of watercolors!
I'll post some pictures when I get home.

Well, the other reason I am posting on here ATTENTION NEW YORK ISHEES, is that I am actually flying into New York and will be there all of next weekend, and hope that maybe if you guys are around and with some time, we could hang out a bit. I still haven't been introduced to the newest members of the family!
So if anybody reads this in the next couple days just let me know and I'll find a way to get to you.

Hope everybody's summer was great!
Love Pascky

Tee Shirts

Hello All-- T hoped to give out his business' Waters Edge Tee shirts to people who wanted them, during the reunion. Unfortunately he forgot. They are adult size large, in different colors, with the company logo. If anyone wants a shirt, email me with your mailing address, and we'll get one to you. He has about 5 or 6 available.

Tamara

pics

hey everyone that took pics-- i have a ton and wanted to put together the good ones on a cd and send that out to everyone-- but i'd love to have all pics for a fuller reunion representation! would you (those that took pics) mind sending me a cd of the good ones and i'll make a composite?! the sooner the better for me (will be leaving around the 20th or before..)-- just use nell and stephen's address: 1357 lewis creek rd, charlotte, vt 05445

thanks!
rae

a highlight

We had an amazing trip, largely due to all of the help that people generously provided. Thanks and hope to see you again soon!
-Terra, Derek and Nola

reunion!!

well, this is just a start..we thought we'd kick it off with a good pic--that avery, always picking on poor lil' bea...haha.

reunion: cooking & cleaning teams

So I had this thought that for the reunion it would be good to try to distribute cooking and cleaning responsibilities more or less equally among the participants. My suggested plan is that we presume that there will be one big shared meal each day that we're there, and that a team of 4-5 people should be responsible for cooking or cleaning each day.

To that end, I divided everyone up into cooking and cleaning teams for the days Sunday through Friday (assuming that both Saturdays will be too hectic to get everyone all together). I tried to account for people leaving early, to the extent that I'm aware of your plans. I also tried to make sure that no one cooks with any person who is also on his or her cleaning team; that the teams include people from different immediate families, people of different generations, and those who do not see each other often; that no one cooks and cleans on the same day; and no team has more than one person under age 16.

We can figure out later what time of day is most practical for a group meal, and people are welcome to trade teams if they've got other activities on a particular day; I assume that once we're all there it will be easy to negotiate such trades. If I've included anyone who isn't coming, or failed to include anyone who is coming, please let me know. People age 2 and under are exempt.

So... drumroll please... here's the chart:

Sunday cooks: Big Rae, Megan, Terra, Cameron
Sunday cleaners: Tom, Nell, Derek, Sonia

Monday cooks: Cary, Reuben, Andy, Isaac, Nell
Monday cleaners: Granny, Megan, Pam, Miguel

Tuesday cooks: Stephen, Derek, Tamara, Heather
Tuesday cleaners: Jane, Reuben, Terra, Carroll

Wednesay cooks: Granny, Stu, Carroll, T
Wednesday cleaners: Tamara, Stephen, Andy, Sadie

Thursday cooks: Pam, Tom, Heather, Olmy
Thursday cleaners: Stu, Little Rae, Big Rae, Isaac

Friday cooks: Sadie, Sonia, Miguel, Jane
Friday cleaners: Cary, Olmy, Little Rae, T, Cameron

Like I said, this is just a starting point and you are all welcome to trade teams at will, sort of like family reunion draft day. I just thought it would be good to go into the week with a bit of a plan in place. If anyone has special dishes they'd like to cook, don't forget to bring your recipes!

Love, Sadie

Pasky's Blog

For anyone who is interested, Pascale's blog of her Berlin adventure is located at: http://pdberlin.blogspot.com/

She is updating every few days.