What a night!

Thank you to each and every one of you who made it out to our first annual benefit for TeamLeosKids! We had a great time together with long time friends and new friends!

We especially appreciate Naveen Shrestha and Prabin Shrestha at Himalayan Restaurant for graciously hosting this event at no charge to the Leonardo Edward Shrestha Foundation. Their massive generosity included the space, the delicious food, incredible hospitality by the serving staff, and special accommodations for all our guests.

We had a total of 44 people attend last night at various times and some people who were unable to attend donated toward the event anyway. You were all so generous whether you donated in person, online specifically for the event, or mailed in, that total donations will exceed $2,400 after all is said and done.

Harald Baldr kindly held a live online chat with us as promised and encouraged us all with his continued support and his hope to do a follow up with Sunil sometime later this year in Nepal.

Most of the guests were our incredible long time friends, and we were excited to meet several people for the first time! Our awesome new friends who found us because of Harald’s videos – Mark and Emily Cruz and their three terrific boys, as well as wonderful Jody Waldemar came and met us for the first time, but by the time the evening was over it felt like we had already known each other awhile as one of the Cruz boys pointed out.

Thank you so much for honoring our irreplaceable and unforgettable Leo in this way and for helping lighten the load for LeosKids and their families. We love our “Home Team!”