Background: Cha Xuan (Father Michael) is a great family friend of both sides of our family. He does house blessings, baptisms and wedding renewals for many of our family members. Dave is also the Godfather for Fr. Michael's nephew in Vietnam. Father Michael is currently at the Barona Indian reservation parish - Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Today is Cha Xuan's birthday, it's also an excuse to invite both sides of the family together for a nice family dinner. After work, I went to pick up a cake and ran a few errands for Dave's mom before coming over to help.
Dave's family prepared so much food, thai hotpot, tuna sashimi, fried tofu, and steamed asparagus. Mom brought over seafood fried rice and fried bananas. It was really nice to just hang out, even Jessica was home because of spring break. We all caught up and shared stories through the night.
After the birthday cake, Cha Xuan had to head home since he had the farthest drive back to the reservation. Dave took the opportunity to thank him for coming and asked him to share our journey and be our presiding priest for our wedding ceremony. He happily accepted and we are all excited for what lies ahead.
Since San Diego Diocese requires 9 months of preparation prior to the wedding I guess we'll be visiting Barona quite often, Dave will probably enjoy this more than I will but I'm sure Cha Xuan will remind us to make a "right" before the "left". (The church is a right at the light and the casino is a left at the same light)
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