It’s Thanksgiving! Time for turkey and dressing, potatoes and gravy, pumpkin pie and whip cream - all the things you find in every shop in Hong Kong! Hardly!
Left to right - Jacksons, Baldwins, and Perkins
Left to right - Elder Workman, and Akis
Elder and Sister Bench
Every Thanksgiving the ex-pats celebrate together. The Area Presidency and their wives cook turkey and dressing and the missionary couples provide the rest. This year we had 38 people for dinner. The tables were set up in the fourth floor chapel area and looked very festive when we were finished. We were a little short on real Thanksgiving decorations so we made up the difference by re-working our flower arrangements from the mission presidents seminar. This involved a washing a few slimy rocks and discarding the really bad parts, but with only a small investment in fresh flowers they were good to go again.
Gibbons and Emily
Dinner was great! It was so nice to have some "real" food and everyone enjoyed it. Dessert was the icing on the cake so to speak. Pumpkin, pecan, and banana cream pie, along with some sour dough pumpkin roll. It was such a hard decision that I finally had to go with a small piece of each pumpkin and pecan. Diet? What diet?
Sister Woolsey preparing dessert!
1 comment:
Hey Shirl and Dew
I hope this goes through. I bet you two were so excited to actually have real Thanksgiving food. Your trips all over sound so much fun. You two are the best tour guides ever. I bet everyone loves to be with you. I know we really miss you two. Love ya Myrn
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