I've been looking forward to this since July 29. (November 17-22)

Grandpa Davidson came to visit me for almost a whole week, and it was my best week in Dhaka so far!

Mom was so excited about his arrival that she tried to make Mormor's buns and cinnamon rolls, which looked great until she baked them and they turned into pancakes.  Grandpa and Dad are such nice guys that they told her they liked them anyway, and I liked the bites that Grandpa snuck to me, too. 

In fact, Grandpa feeding me turned into a bit of a theme for the week.  He let me try bread, crackers, lots of bananas, watermelon, rice and pears while he was here.  Those are just the foods Mom knows about.  I'm not even going to mention the ice cream or banana cream pie he may or may not have snuck to me because I don't want her to find out.  

Sometimes I was a little stubborn when he wanted me to eat healthy food.  He usually won, though.

Other than eating, what we did with Grandpa was travel around Dhaka.  We took rickshaws, CNGs and lots of stroller rides.  I'm getting pretty good at the whole rickshaw thing now, so it was a fun extra challenge to try to get all four of the members of our family onto one rickshaw.  This driver wasn't too happy about it, though, and told Dad to get off when his back, right tire lost air.  At least he let us take a picture before we started walking!

While Grandpa was here, most of Dhaka was celebrating the Eid-ul-Azha holiday, so he helped me to experience my first Muslim sacrifice day.  It was a grotesque anatomy lesson and sober reminder that so many in this city so desperately need to know about unconditional love.

Dad took advantage of my pastor-grandpa's visit to have a guest speaker in his year six (fifth grade) Bible class.  They enjoyed having him and playing Bible Tic-Tac-Know so much that many of them asked for his autograph afterward!  His salt and light lesson is quiet inspirational!

This is me loving every minute of Grandpa time!

Grandpa did try to sneak me back to Arizona, but my nine kilograms put him over the twenty-kilo limit for Emirates Airlines.  Now I'm counting the days until Mashi Angie's wedding in June when I know I get to see him and the rest of my Davidson relatives again!  Thanks so much for visiting, Grandpa.