Success

Our Thanksgiving dinner last Saturday night was a great success. Everything went perfectly! On Friday, Laura and I spent the morning cooking with 2 Bolivian women helping us. It was such a different experience for me to be preparing our special Thanksgiving casseroles, sweating, and speaking Spanish. But it was a great morning, a special time of just being women, cooking together, irregardless of culture, language and even temperature. Bubba spent Saturday preparing and cooking 2 turkeys - his specialty. It was so beautiful and elegent in our living room turned dining room. I felt like we must really be grown-ups if we were hosting this kind of dinner! Everything here starts much later at night, and kids are included, something we are all getting used to. Our party started at 7, with the majority of folks arriving by 8. We sat down for dinner at 8:30, after Bubba shared about why we celebrate Thanksgiving and the fact that we were happy to be sharing this tradition with our new Bolivian friends. The kids played, iced turkey and pumpkin cookies, colored coloring sheets of pilgrims and indians, and the adults generally enjoyed being together and meeting new people. It was a great success, and feels like the beginning of new friendships here in Bolivia. Thank you to all of you who prayed for our time. Enjoy the pictures.