Let the Festivities Begin

As you know from the previous posts that Friday is the official day to decorate the house. Here is our little tree we are putting up. I love when the house is decorated Christmasy, especially living here since they don't celebrate Christmas, it's the only place that feels like its the holidays.

Our window treatment. Those are little chili's to match our tree stand cover.

You can call me "Betty Crocker," don't worry I'll answer! Here are some pies we (with the help of some friends) made for a party.

Cody, carving into our delicious turkey.

Thanksgiving meal, I promise we weren't alone!!

TURKEY DAY

HAPPY THANKSGIVING PEOPLE!!!

Visa Run

We went on a visa run to Europe this weekend and yes, we did buy tons of bacon, Dr Pepper, tortillas, and hot dog's. We were also able to catch an English movie. It was an old, tiny, one screen theater so all that was playing was The Ant Bully. It wasn't the greatest movie but we were desperate after not being in a movie theater in over a year!


In Europe they obviously don't celebrate Thanksgiving so everyone had already decorated for Christmas because they are unaware that you can't put up your decorations until the Friday after Thanksgiving. Someone should really tell them the rules.


Beautiful coastal countryside. And I didn't even get seasick this time!


Here is what Cody ate for dinner on Saturday. It's the heart attack on bread. This burger contains bacon, sausage, cheese, onions, mushrooms, all topped with a fried egg and side of french fries. That's three different types of meat! It came with a side of grease to dip it in.

Halloween Party, North African Style!

This week we had our Halloween party and invited our national friends. We had to explain to them what Halloween tradition's in America are and then had all sorts of games and stuff. When you read about them it will sound like we had a party for 9 year old's but they loved it because it was the first time they had every heard of these things. We started with passing around a bowl reading Halloween quotes and jokes and asking questions like "What makes you scared?" and "Do you have an scary stories to tell?" We were translating between things so jokes like "What do sea monster eat for dinner? " "Fish and Ships," don't go over to well.

The pumpkins here are ginormous so we couldn't exactly all carve pumpkins so instead we used bell peppers that looked liked pumpkins.

We carved them out and put tea light candles in them and lined them all up and turned off the lights.

Then we had the traditional bobbing for apples. Our tub wasn't very big but they still managed to get two heads in there!

We had masks and sparkle tattoos (see below) for them to wear. The Americans stood behind each door in my house and we taught them how to "trick or treat." They had to knock on the door and say it in order to get candy. They thought it was hilarious! We had been sent a bunch of Halloween candy from America. I also made ghosts using a paper towel and blow pop suckers. We had caramel apples, Red Hot apples, kettle corn, and pumpkins rolls.

Here is Cody and Simba. Everyone was such a good sport. Cody and our other American friend were beat up Euro-trash soccer players. I put some various eyeshadows and lipsticks on them. Looks pretty good huh?

And I was cat. I colored some notecards and taped them to a headband. For my tail I had my black scarf tied around my waist and wore fake eyelashes (woah, though things hurt!) and painted a nose. Hey we didn't have much to work with here! So all in all we had a great time and a very memorable North African Halloween!