Dinner party that stirred up Trujillo

Last night we had a dinner party! We invited Emilson and his family (the adminstrator at the school) and Candido and his family (one of the ministers here in Trujillo). Nadine headed to San Pedro Sula to pick up the 3 in her team coming to work for the next two weeks...she is fluent in Spanish so it might have been wise to plan our party when she was here, but we are always up for an adventure. Plus, we have Annina helping and she is great to have to translate too!

Candido went to town early yesterday morning and bought fresh shrimp from the fishermen for us - annina has told him how much we wanted and given him the money the night before. We had decided on doing a low country shrimp boil...
So Annina and I headed to town to do our grocery shopping. We did all of Trujillo in the end. And every one of the 3 grocery stores was visited along with just about every fruit and vegetable stand. We were laughing about how then right when we got home (after 4 hours of shopping/walking) we got to get to work immediately preparing our feast...no rest for the weary. then we got home to discover we didnt have everything we needed....off to Wal-mart...oh wait...to get even one more item it means heading back down the mountain. poor Thad....after laying at home sick yesterday (upper respiratory..pray it passes he has been having bouts of dizziness with the drainage in his inner ear) he hiked down the mountain to get the last few things while annina, the kids and I got the house ready and started the food.....Right as Thad got back and we were in the crunch of when we had to get things done quickly to get it all done in time, we had company so of course we had them join us for dinner (and literally Thad, Annina and I prayed a pray for a 'loaves and fishes moment')

At our house, Thad does the shrimp boils....so he was in the kitchen doing the cooking when our guests arrived. he was starting the potatoes when they got there so the ladies saw the big bowl of unpeeled shrimp ready to go in the pot and panicked a bit. They peel all of their shrimp here no matter how they cook it. So they offered to help me peel the 5 lbs of 'grande' shrimp. Thad and I assured them we wanted it like that and they gave us some odd looks and I think just thought we were NUTS!! hee hee!! Then when they all realized Thad was doing the cooking - the men here do not take on kitchen/house duties - the wives told their husbands that they were going to dye their hair blonde and move to the states to find a man that would cook!! Our friend Eda told her husband Emilson how much she liked seeing Thad and I in the kitchen together...while laughing as she knew he wouldnt do that.
then we pull out the boiled not peeled shrimp and more laughing ensued...more work for the men!! No one minded so much really...then we enjoyed homemade mango cobbler for dessert...YUMMY!! The word cobbler doesnt translate nor is it something they had ever had. So cobbler with vanilla ice cream was the perfect new treat to go along with our meal of new experiences!!

Our loaves and fishes prayer worked perfect as when Otto and Katherine (with the goodwood team) stopped by needing to borrow something later in the evening they got to enjoy some of the leftovers!! God is good!!!

(for those wondering how my kiddos are adjusting to life here....MK cried yesterday that life at home was boring, that friends dont get together enough and she doesn´t get to play outside all day, etc..she wanted to know when we get to move here. John Mark thinks he is Honduran we´ve decided...he is loving climbing trees, going barefoot, and just playing outside ALL day with his friends. They amaze us in how well they adjust)