It was truly an all day event. This morning, we went to the market, haggled over the price of beef for the hamburgers that we planned to cook, and bought a whole swack-load of delicious fruits and veggies.
Grace and I also did a little Thanksgiving splurge on new outfits. The shoes are posted here, but the full outfits will be modelled and posted tomorrow, enshallah. So check back here tomorrow.
I spent most of the afternoon single-handedly peeling enough potatoes to feed the 17 hungry tummies that we had invited for Thanksgiving potluck. It was a tough job, but I had my MP3 player belting out the Christmas tunes to get me in a festive mood.
Thankfully, it wasn't too hot out this afternoon, either, so I didn't even work up too much of a sweat peeling the potatoes!
All those potatoes made an awful lot of compost, so I had to make a cross-compound trip to deposit it. Of course, being the good African woman that I am, I had to carry the bucket on my head. Of course, being the good American that Grace is, she had to take a photo of me carrying the bucket on my head.
Anyways, we had a wonderful meal with all sorts of people from all over the world, gathered together around a long table, enjoying the bounty that God provided for us. God has been so good to us!
And now, I'm off to sleep... hopefully I'll sleep better than I did last night. As I was laying down to go to sleep, some kind of creature started making an awful lot of noise. I was thinking it was probably the rat with our rat trap glued to his foot... but maybe it was just a lost bat trying to find his way home... But I am extra-specially thankful for my mossy net which puts a small barrier between me and all the crazy nocturnal creatures that roam the room after we turn out the lights!
1 comment:
Awesome pictures!
Sounds like a great celebration!
Did you sleep better?
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