Pumpkin Bowling

This year's Thanksgiving was quite festive.  Our team, sans McNeal's (who are stateside for a wedding) was joined by Brett's mom and our friends James and Daphne from Mwanza.  We had the typical dressing, casseroles, rolls, cranberry sauce, pies galore and cookies.  Instead of turkey this year, Calvin fried up some chicken tenders.  Which I think should become the new tradition.  Brett's mom brought Thanksgiving plates and napkins.  We each shared three things we were thankful for: Baylor's were sharing her cups, sharing her bowls, and sharing her toys.  We had to remind her of that sharing toys thing later.  

After lunch we used water bottles as pins and a nice round pumpkin (Baylor's Halloween pumpkin) for a ball, and bowled down our hallway.  Sadie was the winner and Calvin was the most enthusiastic, actually splitting the pumpkin in two on his last roll (or perhaps it was more of a throw).

Later the kids watched a movie while the adults played Balderdash.  I have to say, I'm a pretty accomplished liar.  I destroyed the the other players with an eleven point lead.  Of course, you'll never know if that is, in fact, true.  

We finished the evening with more eating and chatting.  Miraculously, we had electricity the whole day.  It's not exactly the same thing as what we grew up with, but we're starting to be comfortable with our new traditions and even enjoy them.  Baylor and Harper will one day be in the States thinking, "Thanksgiving is just not the same when it's so cold."