Dear Readers,
We hope that you are prospering wherever you are.
We have passed one of our most cherished holidays - Thanksgiving. While it is celebrated elsewhere at different times and ways, it is most prominent in America. The most noted was the celebration at Plymouth, MA in 1621. Sister Baxter's ancestors were there.
It is not recognized in New Zealand, I am sorry to say, but we celebrated it nonetheless. We were pleased to have our son, David, Annie, and mokopuna Hans with us. We celebrated the day in the city of Rotorua where we had a traditional Maori meal cooked in a hangi (a geothermal steam vent). Our meal consisted of chicken, potato, kumara, cabbage, stuffing, carrots, corn on the cob, and steam pudding. No turkey but the rest of the menu seemed appropriate.
While the whanau were here we did a number of interesting things that you can see depicted below.
Sincerely,
Elder and Sister Baxter
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| Pumice Lifting! |
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| Taranaki Falls |
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| We had extra help with a missionary teaching event. |
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| Posing with King Tawhaio in Taumarunui |
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| David and Tim at the Summit of Red Crater (6188') |
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| Tongariro Crossing - Mt Ngauruhoe in background |
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| Hangi Kai on Thanksgiving Day |
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| Practicing our Haka Faces |
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