Thanksgiving

Dave and Maurine cut the "turkey" - we called them "Tilza Turkeys" which were 6 chickens with stuffing!!


Everybody brought something to share and our plates were quite full. We had mashed potatoes & gravy, cranberry jelly, yams, corn, carrots with honey and ginger, olives (green stuffed & black), tomatoes with garlic topping, a special Swedish dish (fish), tomatoe and cucumber salad, and beet salad . For drinks we had four kinds of soda and tea and coffee. All especially enjoyed the pumpkin pies and apple cruble with ice cream for dessert.

As you can tell, we had a delicious meal with lots of friends. Some of you may have known already that we had 5 Americans, 2 Canadians, one Brit, one Scot, one Swede and the rest were Latvians -26 people in all.

Everyone served themselves in the kitchen after singing first a Latvian song of Thanks and then an English one, then prayer for the meal.

After dinner we had a wonderful time of sharing how thankful we are and for what. The kids sang a little song with the help of Wes who remembered the song from his childhood and taught it to the 7 children who were there.

As is usual after a big meal, we sat around and visited for a long time then had a special time of singing and worshiping the Lord.