It's my first ever thanksgiving celebration! Zen and I started the day with a mass at 9:00 A.M. in the Newman Center, Iowa City. We were invited by "Tito Leo" Lim a week earlier to celebrate with them, so we drove seventeen miles north to Swisher, IA. We left Coralville twenty minutes before 2:00 P.M., and we were at the Lim residence by the top of the hour. We had an interesting exchange of life stories with the Lim's while having some snacks. A while later, I was helping them prepare the turkey (my first again) for the early dinner. There were just five of us, but we had so much fun, and our hosts were so hospitable that we didn't notice it was almost 9:00 P.M. We met the Lim couple for the first time during a Filipino-American get-together early this year only, but our celebration seemed to be like a gathering of long lost relatives and was itself a cause for thanksgiving.