The Ladies Banquite 2012

Someone found this the next day about how well the Banquet went.
Prep work.

Mercy and Me. :)

Lex =] Sorry, Jub had the camera.

Talking

Lydio

Somehow I missed those...

Tehe. I did take this picture. :D

I love you too :D

Why did I wait till after I ate to take a picture of my place setting. I guess the food was so good all I was thinking about was eating it! ;)

See, the pan was EMPTY! =]

More talking

:)

Jessy, Hop and Jub.

The Theme

The Verse

Mmmm

Ho yeah! Cheese cake!

I was two bites away from the end and I remembered we still had to sing! Doh! :) Oh well, it was fine.

Pretty Hop. :)

Shelly and Hannah. Other wise known as our wonderful cook and her right (or is it left) hand! :D

The guys making sure we have everything we need before they go over and have their feast! :)

Our Beautiful speaker, Shannon Cook. :)

And a few of the many faces she makes. :D

She did such a wonderful job!

The awesome guys that kept the food coming, the tables clean, and our cups full! :)

They did great this year. (As they do every year!)

Giving them a hand of thanks and praise.

My wonderful mother that puts SO MUCH work into the banquet every year!

And does an incredible job of it with the help of many hands.

What's that face for Mego? :)

I have no idea what's going on here.

Clean up! The funnest part! :D

Cleaning everything and getting it back in it's proper places.

Jos doing dishes. :)

The annual spin around after the after the banquet while the chairs are up. :)

This may have been the first year I haven't done it. But I'll gladly let the younger ones take over the tradition. :)

Oops, what happened here? :)

Hmm

Hehe

 That looks like trouble right there... ;)

The end.

It was a wonderful night with many wonderful memories for all.

But very exhausting! :)

Thanks to Jub for taking more then half these pictures for me, that was very helpful deary. ;)

My Last Day In Zambia With Jennifer and Catherine

LOTS of ground corn!

 Out to eat for my last time there.

 Aw. :)

 We ate at a nice place in the mall. It was almost like we had it all to ourselves since we were late for lunch.

 Colorful piggies

 Jennifer's food.

Oh my! Just the remembrance of this makes me full! This was my "double cheeseburger" I wasn't quite thinking it would be THAT MUCH MEAT! =O

 Catherine's T-bone stake

 Um, it was BIG!!!

 I couldn't get the whole think in my mouth! (And I kinda have a big mouth...) I think about half way through I realized there was NO WAY I was going to make it all the way through it. So I only ate half the bun and I think most of the meat. But I was fighting really hard there at the end...

 Catherine's all gone.

 Jennifer's almost all gone. :)

Enjoying her Coke

 Showing off her new phone. (It was much needed, her old one wasn't the greatest, but at least it worked. So she was just waiting to get a new one so she could give her old one to Clara, who's phone mostly didn't work. :)

 The out side of the mall

 Our Faith rings.

 Can you tell our hands apart? =]

 After how much food we had for lunch Jennifer and I said there was no way we needed supper. Maybe have some chips or something. But Catherine thought we were crazy, and somehow had room for another meal later. :) How do you like it when your meat can still look at you? =]

 Catherine's bed

 Jennifer and my bed

 After maybe 2 hours of sleep, there I sat all alone in the Lusaka airport watching the sun come up.

 Forever many hours later I found myself sitting in Spain where once again I saw the sun come up as I was flying in. That was probably one of the prettiest landings I've ever been on. Watching the sun through the clouds and coming up over the mountains. Wow.

After 48hours all together travel time, it was very sweet to be flying into TC and recognize places so close to home! :)
It was sad to leave, but I'm so very glad to be home! =]=