Our Family Dinner

Last night we had a beautiful family dinner, with our YWAM family.  We leave for Indonesia on Monday, so it was pretty much our last chance to be together with all these people who we have grown to love so much, at least for the next three months.

So it was up to us as students to prepare the dinner, and we have a very little kitchen.  So we had a bit of help from the staff, but I'm happy to say that we had a beautiful family dinner with 20 people.  We had turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, perogies (pirohy is the correct spelling and pronunciation here), pasta salad, my grandma's salad, vegetables, shepherds pie, an amazing slovak dessert, and pumpkin pie (courtesy of one very inventive and amazing lady!)

It was great to get to have a dinner that was reminiscent of Thanksgiving or Christmas at home before we left.  Because everything is going to be very different for Christmas.  And that isn't necessarily a bad thing, but we definitely will miss being with family. Especially as it is beginning to look alot like Christmas here with the snow and a huge Christmas tree in the square, we are realizing what we are going to miss.  But as substitutes for our "real" family goes, and for "actual" Christmas,  this was pretty great.

We even got help with the dishes afterwards!