After ten years, I brought my entire family back to the US. Five of us had never set foot in the motherland before. Between the incredible length of the journey – 30 hours and three airplanes – and the slightly above average size of our family, I imagine it will be ten more before we atttempt it again. But what a precious three weeks!
The thing about the upper midwest is the grass is safe to lie on
Some park in Chicago
With Aunt Shira and family in Chicago
Baking cookies with Aunt Sophie
Feeding Chickens
Great Grandpa Jules, over 90 and going strong
Mom, Dad and us kids
Hanging out with Schnitz
Six cousins are we
Deep in the spruce forest
The largest mosque in America in Dearborn, Michigan.
Chilling on Uncle Jan’s boat in Lake Orion
Me with Patrick Swami
The fastest sheep-shearer in Michigan. No, really.
Carving jackolanterns
Hantu repellent
My godfather
Feeding the sheep
Ridhwan and cousin Timmy
Jon Morrow, friend not seen since high school!
Climbing crabapple
Shaykh Daniel
Nearly as pretty on the ground as on the trees
Sisters at the As-Siddiq Mosque in Flint
Fall harvest
In the James Van Sweden garden of the Nichols Arboretum
Rashid
waiting for the last connecting flight
