Our first three Thanksgivings

Wanted to share with our friends and family back home what we did for Thanksgiving this year.  Thanksgiving is not a holiday here of course.  So, all the world around us was business as usual.  Dennis and I however had a great day eating and chatting with new friends.

Left to right, Mrs. Betty, the principal, Mrs. Blanco, Mrs. Yvette, Mrs. Melody
and me.

That is Mr. Uck in front of me.  (pronounced ook)

They are making potato salad.  We also had a great turkey and rice and beans with
bread pudding for dessert and fresh orange juice to drink.

Mrs. Jizelle is helping Dennis take apart the turkey, they didn't have a knife.

This is me and Noelly, she is Lauren's little sister.

About a half hour after we left the school in Buena Vista we were on our way to San Ignacio to our new friends house.  They are Pastor Jim Tucker and his wife Deborah.  We also had our meal with a few other people from Bridge the Gap.  

These are Belize pumpkins.

Yum!  We had olives!

Just wanted to show you the bed.  Pastor Tucker traded sheet rock
work for it.

Some of you may recognize this design.  Beate created it for the windows
at Bridge the Gap.

Look!

The Tuckers have a very nice home way up on a hill overlooking
Spanish Lookout and San Ignacio.  

My new friend Patti.  She lives a few miles away from my brother in
California.  She is a high school secretary and was here on a sabatical of sorts.

Then last but not least we had our third Thanksgiving feast on Saturday, at Pastor Mark and Brendas house overlooking San Ignacio.  John and Beate were there and our new friends Dennis and Anna Duek.  He is a really nice business man from Spanish Lookout. 

More yummy turkey.

In front is Beate.  In back is Anna Duek her son Clive, Dennis Duek,
Libby whos is Mark and Brenda's daughter, and John.

Brenda and Pastor Mark.  He is not Hispanic or Belizian
he is Peruvian.

Couldn't help the puppy pictures.

There was a litter of 13.

If you remember Bear from Bridge the Gap, these are his sisters pups.

Simultaneously, there was also a litter of Chihuahua's in the house.
This family loves their dogs.

They look like stuffed animals.

Her name is Ginger.  And we are not in the market for a dog.
No matter how cute.

So, we had three Thanksgivings this year.  We enjoyed all of them very much.  It was good to be so busy because we have never not been with the kids before.  I did get to talk to them on Thursday which made me very happy and very sad.  God is doing some good stuff here and I am glad we are here.  I wouldn't change a thing.  Except maybe have a monthly visit back in Tennessee.

Love all of you guys.  Keep up the facebook because it is my link back to all of you.