The Feast

The last couple of days were LONG.  We were up late last night cleaning the house and preparing food for our lunch party today.  Many of you (I'm not actually sure who "you" is at this point....I'm starting to wonder if anyone reads our blogs:)) knew that we were having my language tutor's family over for lunch. This is the family that had us over a couple of weeks ago.  We really enjoyed our time with them, and wanted to continue to get to know them.

Our morning started at 10:00 with teammates coming over for Sunday fellowship and then we rolled right into final preparation before our guest arrived at 1:00.  The ladies did a wonderful job with all of the food choices and preparation.  The lunch started with Chai tea and some sweets (brownies, cookies, chocolate candies, and pumpkin muffins, and then the courses started.  The first course was similar to meatball soup, then the salads came out.  The first salad was a beet salad, where all of the beats are pureed and mixed with walnuts and garlic.  The next salad was similar to a potato salad with carrots, mayo, sour cream, egg, chicken, and walnuts.  Then the heavier dishes started to come out.  Baked chicken in a lemon and herb basting, a pot roast type dish, and then a chicken and rice dish.  Then another round of Chai, homemade apple pie, and fruit.  I thought they were going to have to roll me away from the table.  All in all, it was an awesome day of food, fellowship and sharing.  I plan on sharing more about today and our work in our next newsletter.  There are some exciting things happening here that we would like to keep you updated with and this isn't the best way to share them.  

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