My Thanksgiving didn't start with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. My Thanksgiving started with a bajaj bumpin' Eminem's latest single and passing Maasai warriors on the street.
Erin and I went to Dyan and Steve Larmey's house, where we celebrated with 29 other folks and gorged ourselves on turkey (white meat, hooray!), stuffing (delish), sweet potatoes (yes, I know!), REAL cranberries, and even a few pies. All day it didn't feel like Thanksgiving (um, hi, I went to school and taught), but I kept sharing joyful "Happy Thanksgiving" wishes to all my fellow Americans on campus. Tonight, I was blessed by the Larmey family with a true-blue Thanksgiving meal (minus Gramma's epic shrimp cocktail, of course), and I am thankful for the fellowship I was so lucky to experience. Americans, Tanzanians, Brits, all were most welcome (
karibu sana), and it was amazing to meet many new faces for the first time and still feel like we were, for this night, a family.
Happy Thanksgiving to all the ones I love back home!! Miss you Gordons, Grovers, Partches and Bechters! (And Hollingsworths across the miles!)
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| Erin and I in the Eminem-enhanced bajaj. |
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| Table for 31? |
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| God gave me a little nudge of home when I saw we all had nameplates. <3 |
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| A Larmey family thankfulness turkey. It reminded me of the one we have at home. I made it when I was little and labeled every feather "fether." |
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| Erin and me before dinner. |
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| Mary and me. She lives on the compound, too, with her husband who's the school's sports coordinator. They coach swim together. |
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| Turkey anyone? Erin, Dyan and me. |
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| Apple pie and pumpkin pie. Post feast, I had only enough room for one bite of Erin's slice of pumpkin pie. |
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The bird.
(Notice the African drums in the upper right corner.) |
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| My place at the table. My nameplate turkey-shaped cookie is orange, just above my plate. |
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| About to sit down to dinner. |
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| Dyan and me. |
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| Marmalade!! The Larmey family's pet goat. I finally got a photo of her! She's on the first-floor patio railing. |
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| Forgot to wear this over to dinner! Took a photo and wore it around my room when I got home. Oh, Target dollar bins. |
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| My right leg in its pink-spotted glory. My body total is up to 21 bug bites today. Happy Thanksgiving!! Haha |
Feeling especially grateful for my supportive family and boyfriend and for God's daily presence in my life. I couldn't do any of this without them.
Much love,
LG
!!! ANADALE PUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! me encanta MUCHO de leer todo tu commentario y palabras de su 'dia de accion de gracias' -aka thanksgiving. lol. especificament, me encantaba de leer tu primer paragraph--- yo LOL mucho y yo lei este paragraph tres veces.
ReplyDeletegracias por finalmente poner los fotos. yo mire en cada uno por muchos momentos. sabes que? tu pareces como un dyke en el foto donde estas standing a lado de la mesa en tu vestido. hahahahaha. pero en serio, me gusta mucho el foto de la pictura del pavo de muchos colores, el namecard y especialmente el foto del marmalade lady. pues.
yo pase un dia muy bonito el la casa de tia maria y tio gerald. en serio, pasamos un BUEN tiempo. comimos una cena especial y hermosa, visitamos y hablamos much y reimos (laughed) mucho, y durante comer el pumpkin pie, jugamos nickel-knock.
nuestra familia es la bendiga (blessing) mas grande en mi vida.
te amo (just kidding lol)
-La MeJoR ELENA
Looks like you had a great Thanksgiving. I was especially impressed with your turkey - its what turkeys are supposed to look like, not our Butterballs!!!! Loved your dress.
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