Christmas Under a Mosquito Net

Connie, Taylor and Craig - Our home for Christmas 2006

As Connie Mentioned in her newsletter this week, we decorated our room for Christmas. Here you see the completed product. Our Africa drum holding the Pine Cone Christmas Tree (thanks Edna Fund for the second international Christmas Tree). On the tree you will see 3 ornaments. Our decorations also included, the Cindy Larson knitted scarf, serving as our Cedar trimmings, the I SPY family book, A cloth Nativity Book, created by Joyce Cornell, the movie, Polar Express for Christmas day, and "Fingers" (behind the Tree).

It's Snowing in Thies

If you look closely you will see snowflakes in our room. No - it's not really snowing in Thies. But we did create a white Christmas by cutting out paper snowflakes and hanging them from the ceiling and ropes that hold our mosquito net. I received the prize for the most beautiful snowflake, an extra finger. The fan, which is rotating in this picture, keep the snowflakes continually moving, creating a lifelike snow blizzard.

God is so creative! If you want to view very cool photos of snow crystals. Follow this link:

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/photos/photos.htm

Christmas Open House

Kenny G Christmas music, decorations, fingers, and now friends. Can life get any better than this? We held our home open and had many visitors. In the picture above, Lin, Dana and Tim, live it up in the mock snowstorm while eating Fingers. You may wonder what the heck Fingers are. They are a popular cookie, distributed by walk-by vendors while you pass the time in Dakar rush hour traffic, (and sold locally in stores). Tim discovered these delightful cookies and I have thanked him every since. (I'm not sure how they came up with the name)

Thursday, December 12th

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