Happy New Year to all of our friends and family! We didn’t get around to doing Christmas cards this year, and even if we had, it would have cost us a fortune to send them all from Switzerland so we’ll consider this our e-holiday-greeting to our loved ones. Pilgrims This holiday season started for us with a “Friendsgiving” celebration with a few of the friends we’ve gotten to know during our time here. It included friends from the UK, Washington D.C., China and Egypt by way of the UK – appropriately, all of us pilgrims of one sort or another. Aside from our DC friends, it was the first Thanksgiving most of our guests had celebrated, so although neither Jim nor I would typically go out of our way to have traditional American Thanksgiving fare, we figured there was no time like the present to expose our friends to the insipid Thanksgiving culinary traditions. In all seriousness, the food was good as was the company – although next year I think we’ll opt for Thai.