November 27, 2007

THANKSGIVING!

Ahh, one of few truly American holidays. We celebrated it with “gusto” in Honduras last Friday and continued celebrating throughout the weekend. Luke and I offered to host the Paradise (the state we live in is called Paradise) Thanksgiving at our house on Friday. Almost everyone from our department/state made it and a friend of Luke and I’s from a town south of Tegus. We had 9 people total for the main meal on Friday and everyone brought something to share. We had: a 20 lb turkey, mashed potatoes and real gravy from the pan drippings, green bean casserole (I actually had to deep fry onions for the French’s onions), stuffed squash, candied yams, salad (with greens from our garden!), homemade rolls (thanks for the recipe grandma Bauer – they were a hit!), creamed corn, chili con queso soup with fried tortillas (apparently a Texas tradition), cranberry sauce, homemade pumpkin and apple pie (thanks grandma for the crust recipe) and vanilla ice cream. We were definitely in the “turkey coma” starting Friday afternoon until the leftovers finally got eaten Saturday evening! Saturday morning people came back over for my famous homemade Monkey bread and hung out for lunch. A few Paraiso volunteers that had gone to another Tgiving celebration were passing back through Danlí on their way home and stopped by for a beer but ended up staying overnight Saturday and helping us finish up leftovers. People kept stopping in and out, which made it feel like a real Thanksgiving. The last of the guests left yesterday (Sunday) afternoon.

Mass chaos in the kitchen while we got all the food ready!

The pretty pies!

Yummy!
Sitting down to eat
Breaking out the leftovers and board games
Luke overdid it! (see bottom of pic where he´s laying down)
Saturday am: Everyone came back for breakfast
Sat. night: Tara and & I break out the leftovers once again!
Stuffing ourselves for the last time Sat. night

November 12, 2007

In memory...

Moose (Moosey)
December 20, 2004 - November 7, 2007
You were loved by many! We´ll miss you!