Peter's Company Holiday Party

Peter managed at the last minute to sneak me into his employees-only company holiday party. It started on Monday afternoon with a musical performance which included both beautiful traditional Christmas songs and some lighter-hearted numbers. Peter had been attending weekly rehersals for this since I got here in October. He played guitar and dobro and was wonderful and adorable. I told him sincerely that the whole show was very entertaining. There were about 175 people in the audience. After the performance we moved into a beautiful dining hall for a traditional "Christmas table" buffet. It included Swedish mainstays like an appetizer table of assorted herrings, another huge table for the main course of ham and other types of meat and fish, pickled red cabbage, and a lot of other really good dishes. It was followed by the traditional Christmas dessert of rice porridge with "lemonade soup".

I was lucky to get a fourth row seat, but ended up right behind a gigantic candleabra...which of course Peter ended up being directly behind. I was happy to get any pictures with him in them at all.

This of course got a huge laugh when everyone saw their coworkers/managers come out like this. Peter was playing his Hawaiian dobro song during this.



This St. Lucia procession was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen and heard. It was done by local performing arts high school students.


This was really good. It was sort of like rice pudding, but a little thinner. The "lemonade soup" tasted like black current, raspberry and lemon. Peter had two bowls.