2020 Presidential Election...

Carlin and Kent hosted us for dinner on November 3, the evening of the US Presidential election. I wore my pearls in honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the incredible Supreme Court Associate Justice that fought for human rights throughout her long and empowering legal career. 

This year’s Election Breakfast was cancelled, so here’s a throwback to the one in 2012 when the girls joined us. Like previous elections, we slept a few hours and then stayed glued to the news for hours on the morning of the 4th. 

Continuing with the theme that nothing in 2020 was normal, there was no winner declared on the 4th. Instead the world had to wait until the 7th for Biden to be declared the winner. It just happened that we had invited Bob to spend the night since he was feeling lonely while Lisa was in the US for two months. I was so impressed to learn that she was working as a lawyer tracking all of the lawsuits filed across the country related to the election. Jimmy yelled down for us to join him in his office as the news spread that Biden had enough electoral college votes to be declared the winner. 

Later that night we brought over some bubbly to have a toast with our next door neighbors, who were completely fascinated with the American election process. 

Notice anything unusual about this flag? Bob noticed right away that it only has 48 stars (Alaska and Hawaii didn’t become states until 1959). 

Turns out that this fantastic large cotton flag was from 1945 and was apparently given to Martijn’s grandparents by American soldiers that had come to liberate the Netherlands.