International Day

This is our favorite celebration of the year. It starts off with a parade with all the countries dressed in their native dress carrying their flag. It's so pretty with all the colors and the pride of ones own country is wonderful. Above is a picture of some Angolans doing traditional dancing. They did a great job.

Then there is a brief program with as many countries that want to participate in it. This year USA did a tribute to American sports. Gwen was a flag twirler.

Jay was is the baseball scene. (He wasn't to thrilled about wearing a High School Musical uniform)

I wish there was room to show all the pictures because some of the costumes were so beautiful. Above is Columbia.

It's getting hot, hot, HOT

We have had another day off of work and school for the celebration of Angola's independence from Portugal, so we headed for the beach. We take the company boat out to an almost island about a 15 minute boat ride from our house. The beach on one side looks like the picture above. Full of garbage.

So we walked to the other side where the beach is much cleaner. It is getting so hot! The water is really refreshing.

These kids walked a long ways to see if we wanted any coconuts or dresses.

Luanda looks pretty good from a distance!

Happy Halloween

Ahh yes, the thrills of Halloween. All the children on the compound get together for trick-or-treating and then for dinner and games.
It's always a fun time. John even went bobbing for apples or should I say dunking!

Gwen couldn't wait to be a cowgirl. Her friend changed costumes several times before deciding on being a cat.

Jay was a great "Indiana Jay" he was so happy to have lots of American candy.

My costume just wowed everybody. They said that they had a hard time recognizing me. My kids couldn't even see a difference.