Well there is no "Indonesian way" to celebrate Thanksgiving....there is no such thing here! For the people in our neighborhood, it was just another day. But not for us!
We missed being with family a lot today. It is the first major holiday we've missed with them. Thankfully, we had our new MAF friends and fellow Americans here in Salatiga to celebrate with! We all got together at our friends Daniel and Joy's house. All in all, we were 11 adults and 10 kids. (if I am counting right.) Of those 10 kids...5 of them were babies! (by the way, we have like four or five more MAF families coming to join us soon.... almost all of them have babies....it's going to be baby mayhem!!)
The food was nothing short of what you would find at a Thanksgiving table back home. What an awesome treat! The food was, however, much harder to make! There were no wal mart pumpkin pies or anything like that, but the ladies (and respective house helpers) stepped to the plate and made some awesome stuff! And the Bizztro, one of our favorite restaraunts here, stepped to the plate by selling and cooking a turkey for us....and they cooked it to perfection! How special.
So all of these pictures were taken at some point today. Most of them were taken at the Thanksgiving event at our friends Daniel and Joy's house!
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While I am at it, we would like to show you a few pictures from a wedding we were invited to a few weekends ago. It was November 13th, our 7th anniversary! It took place in the morning, so what a fun way to start our anniversary! A friend in the neighborhood invited us to this "pesta pernikahan" or wedding celebration. It was set up in our neighborhood and all we had to do was walk over! What an amazing experience. We showed up at the time our friends recommended, and we were among the first ones there! Oops. So they sat us near the front right by the band and MC's. The MC's, from what we understood, made good light-hearted fun of us quite a bit....comic relief. Our MAF friends Daniel and Becky and their kids were invited too. They came a bit later than us. They and their four kids were ushered up near the front also just on the other side of the iasle from us. Apparently if you are a foreigner, you will be seated near the front at these weddings! So we had a great view of the ceremony. It was really neat, and the native Javanese dress and traditions were really interesting. There was food, speakers, prayers, ceremonys, etc. No dance floor however. Here's some pictures we took...
Link to album (ipad users?!)
Later in the day some friends babysat for us and we enjoyed a fun date at one of our favorite places here...the Bizztro. What a special anniversary!
We missed being with family a lot today. It is the first major holiday we've missed with them. Thankfully, we had our new MAF friends and fellow Americans here in Salatiga to celebrate with! We all got together at our friends Daniel and Joy's house. All in all, we were 11 adults and 10 kids. (if I am counting right.) Of those 10 kids...5 of them were babies! (by the way, we have like four or five more MAF families coming to join us soon.... almost all of them have babies....it's going to be baby mayhem!!)
The food was nothing short of what you would find at a Thanksgiving table back home. What an awesome treat! The food was, however, much harder to make! There were no wal mart pumpkin pies or anything like that, but the ladies (and respective house helpers) stepped to the plate and made some awesome stuff! And the Bizztro, one of our favorite restaraunts here, stepped to the plate by selling and cooking a turkey for us....and they cooked it to perfection! How special.
So all of these pictures were taken at some point today. Most of them were taken at the Thanksgiving event at our friends Daniel and Joy's house!
Link to album (ipad users?!)
While I am at it, we would like to show you a few pictures from a wedding we were invited to a few weekends ago. It was November 13th, our 7th anniversary! It took place in the morning, so what a fun way to start our anniversary! A friend in the neighborhood invited us to this "pesta pernikahan" or wedding celebration. It was set up in our neighborhood and all we had to do was walk over! What an amazing experience. We showed up at the time our friends recommended, and we were among the first ones there! Oops. So they sat us near the front right by the band and MC's. The MC's, from what we understood, made good light-hearted fun of us quite a bit....comic relief. Our MAF friends Daniel and Becky and their kids were invited too. They came a bit later than us. They and their four kids were ushered up near the front also just on the other side of the iasle from us. Apparently if you are a foreigner, you will be seated near the front at these weddings! So we had a great view of the ceremony. It was really neat, and the native Javanese dress and traditions were really interesting. There was food, speakers, prayers, ceremonys, etc. No dance floor however. Here's some pictures we took...
Link to album (ipad users?!)
Later in the day some friends babysat for us and we enjoyed a fun date at one of our favorite places here...the Bizztro. What a special anniversary!
