stuffed like a turkey

Happy belated Thanksgiving! i pondered the idea of making a list of all the things i was thankful for, but whoa i would never finish! and i could never mention each one of you and what you mean to me. so, instead, i will tell you a little bit about our thanksgiving...
yesterday the american teachers at my school were treated to an amazing, authentic american thanksgiving FEAST (not just a lunch....it was literally a feast!) Judy, our pastor Wally´s wife and my boss Cady´s mom, cooked Thanksgiving lunch for all of us, and boy can she cook! Those of you that have come down for mission trips can testify to that! She´s from Texas, so all the food was very familiar and sooooo good. I havent had some of those dishes since covered dish luncheons back from my childhood! We had homemade yeast rolls, ambrosia fruit salad, green salad, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, two types of turkey, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole (fried onions on top and all!) cranberry sauce, corn, and oh the homemade desserts: pecan pie, pumpkin pie, cherry cheesecake, and chocolate mousse ! and real sweet tea! we ate each and every dish mentioned above, and it was all so special because you cant even get half of the ingredients for those dishes here in El Salvador, but Judy had brought them back from the states. We ate about 1 o´clock, and elvis and i literally could not move ourselves from the couch until 5 o´clock when we had to go home because we were so stuffed. thanks judy!!!

It probably wasn´t such a good idea for me to eat all that, seeing that last week i went to the hospital with what we thought was appendicitis. luckily it wasnt, i think it was because of those gigantic black berries from the last post...last saturday i ate a big plate of strawberries and blackberries, then after my concert people we could get free food at the cafe so i drank 3 fresh strawberry smoothies, then ate a plateful of strawberries and black berries the next morning for breakfast. all those little tiny seeds did a number on my insides! so, unfortunately we havent been able to enjoy those anymore. but i wasnt gonna let a doctor´s order mess up my thanksgiving!!
we have some pretty exciting 2 weeks coming up...amongst lots of activities at church and with my band, elvis´s birthday is december 14th, the day he also will be finished with his college career!!! then we head to NC the 16th..we can´t wait!!! hope to see you soon!