Merry Christmas Eve’s Eve!

We had our single girls’ Christmas party last night. It was so much fun. Kimpie’s mom sent napkins, napkin holders and a nice tablecloth for us to use. And we even broke out our (red!) emergency candles in empty tuna cans. It looked so beautiful, I nearly forgot I was in the bush of Africa .
We dressed up cute and laughed and danced and played Christmas music over the radio to the fellas in longija. We took requests. :) Steve called in from a “traffic jam” in his village. Somehow, that was hilarious to us. I’m so glad we have a good time together.

Then there was this obnoxiously loud knock at the door and a “HO HO HO!” Daniel came dressed up as the Weihnachtsmann (Christmas man) with a red blanket and cotton ball beard and gave us all cards and (melted—whoops!) chocolate bars. What a special surprise!

So, don’t worry, Mom, I’m going to have a fine Christmas here in the bush, even if I will be missing home. We have dinner tonight with the fellas, church and a cow slaughter tomorrow with the community and a team lunch on the 26th. There will be no shortage of Christmas joy. :)

This is KimmiePie, Jen, Annika, Cath and me. (Pattie is behind the camera!) Check out that beautiful table!

Sometimes living in the bush affects your manners.

We had a bit of a dance party. That was good times. Maybe even better was cranking up the Christmas music on the speakers and putting it on the walkie-talkies for the fellas.

Here’s the Weihnachtsmann, in all his glory. Anyone who brings chocolate is tops with us.