Friday, December 21, 2007

Happy "Howly" Days! (Sheep in Arabic is pronounced howly)

Sorry...I know the title is a bit cheesy.
Its been an eventful week, as you will be able to tell from the pictures. Today was Eid el-kbir (translated: the big holiday) here in N. Africa. Every family buys, kills and eats a sheep. We were invited to join a family for this event. Enjoy the pictures!

The view from our window this morning:


And now at our friend's house:

A wonderful family...

The time has come. Any last words?

Baaaaaaaaa

Karl was right in there with the rest of the family (I preferred to watch from a distance)

Just like hunting season in Pennsylvania...

Okay, so I decided to get a little closer for a picture.

Twins!!

Just what we were craving... grilled sheep head (fortunately, they don't eat this until breakfast the next day)

And now we eat... today we ate the liver and lungs wrapped in fat and grilled. It actually was pretty tasty because the fat had a good flavor. We were happy to see fat wrapped around it!!

Some pictures of the last day of our basketball program...

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Merry Christmas!


Well, its been a great last few weeks. Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while!! A few Christmas decorations...

Wanda and I went to our friends house for lunch, and we wore our jilaba's. Its a good thing we did to, because we would have been the only ladies not wearing it in the neighborhood we were in! Do you like the orange?

We had my favorite North African dish. It's called rafisa. Rafisa = SO GOOD.

This is the last week of our basketball league, we had a great time, and the kids were great!

We went to a city north of us to visit some friends. Here are some pictures...