Holidays in Kenya

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Holiday Season

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Photos

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Thanksgiving Prep: Pumpkin pie, Lemon cake, and Spice cake cooling on our couch.

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Me and Lydia, our house manager, doing some cooking on the afternoon of Thanksgiving.

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The official commencement of Thanksgiving festivities: the opening of the Jack.

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Jack Daniels Sweet Potatoes!

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Our house staff! Kelly and I took off work and cooked with them all day, then they joined us at the table for a big meal and a cultural experience.

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Lydia and I carried about 10 desks from everybody's rooms to the roof to make a big table for our 20ish guests.

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Mike carving the turkey.

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Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy, peas and carrots, Jack Daniels sweet potatoes, freshly baked rolls. Pumpkin pie and two kinds of cake for dessert. Not too shabby.

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Ah, and lest we forget. PUPPY CHOW!!!

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Flash to Christmas and Kelly baking Christmas cookies.

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Decorating involved scooping (gross looking but delicious) icing into little plastic bags, then cutting a small hole in the corner of the bag.

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We spent Christmas Eve at a nice hotel in Mombasa called the Tamarind. Here's the view from the pool, our room is up on the third floor.

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Our living room, complete with the first AC we've had in 2 1/2 months.

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View from our porch.

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Kelly cooking...that's right, Jack Daniels sweet potatoes! Our big Christmas dinner was half room service and half homecooked - just the right combination.

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All dressed up and ready to go to Midnight Mass in town. The service was all in Swahili and included far more singing and dancing than last year's Mandarin service...

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Christmas morning... Santa came!

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Thanks Dad and Meda!!!