Hiatt's in the Congo

 I am a strong believer that people are placed in our lives for a reason.  Over the past years, I have been blessed to have the best in my life. I love it when people message me or send me pictures of visiting Ashley.  I miss being able to go visit her.  Thank you for being in my life!

 Thursday, November 28, was Thanksgiving in the United States...here it is just another day.  We were sitting in the office and Trent said, Who's up for dinner? I am so burnt out of cooking the same old things...and I'm trying to not go grocery shopping before we leave for a month so we were in! Ragheb, Trent, Cory and myself went to Bougainvilla...it's the only place here that is consistently good! The Food... Trent's Mozzarella Spinach Chicken Schnitzel with Mashed Potatoes I got the Chicken Burger which came with 2 chicken breasts patties...it had an amazing sweet chili mayo that was sooooo good! Ragheb got steak with a salad Cory got the Chicken Cordon Bleu with mashed potatoes....his usual!

 We hosted our 2 Friends-Giving on Saturday, November 16!  We did it early, because Darius, Sisca & Morne will be leaving on the 28th to go back to South Africa for Darius and Leonie's wedding. (Leonie left 3 week ago!)  Sisca was able to find brown butcher paper and it was super easy to decorate the tables! We had 2 turkeys this year; one was deep fried and one was cooked in the oven. There was Jolof (rice dish from Ghana), chicken shawarma & hummus (Lebanon), mashed potatoes & gravy, beef stroganoff (South Africa), rolls, macaroni and cheese, cooked carrots, and mandazi's (Congo). I also made a cheeseball shaped like a pumpkin...I was supposed to roll it in crushed orange crackers, but they don't have those here so I tried to use orange food coloring...that didn't work either!  I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked, but I'm grateful for what I did get!  Sisca ordered props off Shein. She has to ship it to Zambia and then it is shipped...