Thanksgiving Celebration!

We celebrated Thanksgiving today, Friday. Fourteen of us met for a meal of turkey (mostly wings), dressing, corn, sweet potatoes, homemade bread, pies and other desserts. After the meal we read Bible verses on giving Thanks and each shared one thing for which he was thankful. We then were given a Thanksgiving Trivia quiz and each one was able to "win" a prize! The men went off to another room to watch a prerecorded Football game, one that had been played earlier this week. The rest of us played games, watched last years Parade and chatted. I played several games of Sequence with a couple of people. It was a nice day with my Missionary Family. This year marks 35 years since Dave and Becki Thompson and I started celebrating Holidays together. That's a long time!

A Sad Day Indeed!

It is a sad day indeed because the Ditchi restaurant closed for good this week. It opened about a year ago. It has been the favorite restaurant for us expats (foreigners). The problem? The owner/cook hardly had any other customers. A few or many of us would go eat at the restaurant every week or so but he hardly saw anyone else. I live in Gabon Africa in a small town in the jungle.  There are a couple of other restaurants in town but nothing that compared to this one. We are sad but understand that since business was bad, he had to close! A sad day indeed!