Sunday, November 25, 2007

The First Thanksgiving in Africa

Well, gpops, we actually didn't stuff an elephant.
I know...huge surprise!
In fact, we went camping at some crater lakes, which were amazing! Believe it or not, we were actually swimming with a hippo, but the pictures came out terrible. It was sooooooooo cool!
But, it technically wasn't for Thanksgiving. At ISU, we don't get off for Thanksgiving, since it is only an American holiday, but we did get off for Thanksgiving week for CHOGM, which Matt has already explained (click on Sipi Falls title). The meal was excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When we went camping, with four other families, we tried to stick to our US traditions. We had a huge turkey, stuffing, African roasted corn on the cob, baked potatoes, pumpkin pie, and brownies. It was all delicious, especially since we cooked it all on the fire that the older boys and my dad had been tending to all week. It was really homemade, but we still miss the big dinners at Woodloch.
We'll try to keep the posts rolling as often as possible.

4 comments:

Dan said...

Hippos have been known to be aggressive towards humans, and it is often claimed that hippos are the deadliest animal in Africa; however, according to Smithsonian Magazine, while the animal is very dangerous, reliable statistics for this are unavailable. ---wikipedia

tom said...

oooooo...
weve got a smart one here.

tom said...

does anyone want to see the picture we have of the hippo print?????

John Campbell said...

Musajja - are you showing off? I post a few facts trying to sound smart from wikipedia re: monkeys and you quote Smithsonian. I don't appreciate that you are actually reading and not just quickly googling, top-line reading, and then copying/pasting a link. show-off.

t-money - bring on the hippo print pictures.