Thanksgiving 2012: a visit to Caitrin and Family, grandchilderen and a badlum football game.
1 Tha plane from Dusseldorf to Amsterdam.
2 A fountain in Detroit airport.
3 Tunnel in Detroit airport.
4 Tunnel in Detroit Airport.
5 The Pie to celebrate a new daughter/granddaughter.
6 Caitrin enjoying the 'new' type of salmiak bullet. (A pretaste :-).
7 Trixy, One of the dogs.
8 Two Granddaughters :-). Veronique on the left, Droen right.
9 Two granddaughters with mom.
10 Who is enjoying this the most?
11 Oh Yes, Bronwen is never going to be able to skip a good party... and to get the spirit of the party, 'a toast'.
12 Bronwen in the drinking corner, with party hat.
13 and another toast...
14 Droen and Griffin
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17 caitrin and Jean.
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21 and now for the presentations: Listen Y'all, Mom speaks...
22 Droen now joining in in the fun.
23 Lady Droen O'Roarke.
24 Clearly enjoying the salmiak bullet.
25 Caitrin handed the belt. Next time, use the flash, bertrik.
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28 (brilliantly getting the flash back from the TV set). So now, with Veronique de Mont Saint Michel, all enjoying the taste of salmiak bullets..
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31 For Revenge: I was given the treat of a rootbeer candy. Yeah.. You got to be raised with them to like them, just like salmiak bullets, i guess....
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33 Yeah.. Welcome to the Big Family!
34 And Bronwen also adds to the occasion...
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40 a very special family recepe.
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44 With Bronwen sneaking in.
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50 Griffin and Trouble, caitrins other dog.
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55 Lets show the belt! A new Belt, Speciallt made for Droen. Veronique has received the 'old belt', the belt i made for Caitrin in the time she was my protty (The one with bridges and stars). Catrin made this one now with... cinquefoils and hares.. Appropriate...
56 It is all very voluntarily...
57 The 'lineage' of the belt nicely added at the end of the belt...
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60 trouble. Big trouble.
61 never leave your kids in the back....
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63 It is great fun together.
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66 Totempole...
67 I guess scaring them did not really work...
68 the totempole slowly deteriorates into a wave?
69 the next day: Big Surprise! caitrin arranged tickets for the OU/OSU bedlam. The big game between the two oklahoma universities... Big Rivalry. and the cheerleaders are practising outside.
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78 the Team.
79 We found our seats... Good vision on the field. Now hoping for many touchdowns on this end of the field :-).
80 the other end of the field. A big screen for the screenshots, and now still a fairly empty stand.
81 practise time for the teams.
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83 The (OU) student section is already filled...
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92 warming up.
93 the OSU team. White with orange...
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97 the pride, the band of OU enters.
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99 this is the last home game of the sooners, so a lot of the senior students are thanked, put in the spotlight etc.
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104 the flag of Oklahoma.
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108 Yes. The stadium was sold out.
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123 the entry of the players.
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127 when OU score the sooner wagon races across the field.
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131 and if the sooners score, the flags are run across the inzone.
132 and a couple of the cheerleaders backflip...
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138 and when the sooners score, some shots are fired.
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140 one of the mascottes: boomer and sooner..
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147 halftime show. The OSU band first gets on the field.
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160 the seniors of the pride are thanked.
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170 slowly it gets darker... But the game goes on.
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175 some more backflips when the sooners score.
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177 student who had to do a dance competition...
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183 yes.. wuite a bunch of backflips what they needed to do. Quite some goals in this match.
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187 Sooners win. For the first time in the game in they lead... and that finished the game. Overtime wonders.
