Merry Christmas!

Today is Christmas eve.  That is hard for me to believe, sitting here in a t-shirt and skirt after watering my vegetables, but the Christmas music helps.  December has been a full and interesting month, although I think that is true of all the months here.  However, since I have not found time to blog during the whole month I think things have been even more busy than normal.  A big part of the business has been planting.  We finally got rain, and lots of it, so we have been planting for the last 3 weeks.  Planting has been slowing down, but since there is such a long growing season I will be continuing to put in more vegetables.  Rather than trying to tell you about the all the different things that have been happening in the last month I will give you a little picture tour.

Yeah for Christmas baking! Gingerbread, yummy!

We took a hike one weekend, trying to get to the far peek but...

...we didn't quite make it all the way!

The couple at a Basotho wedding I got to attend.  This is them at the beginning of the reception.

Weddings involve lots of 'costume' changes.  This is the couple in the traditional 'African' dress.

The wedding was in Quthing, so I got to see where my host mom is from. This is her sister's house where we stayed for the weekend.

Our work Christmas party was at some natural hot springs in South Africa, it was a wonderful treat.

We sat around singing after swimming.  

The other SALTers (people doing the same program as me) came visiting in November and we took a hike with them.

Can you see how long the line is? We are waiting to get back into South Africa, this has become a monthly adventure in waiting.

What do I do with this child? Actually she's alot of fun. A one year old granddaughter that is visiting for 2 weeks, she came back with us from the wedding.

Let is rain, let it rain, let it rain! This is what it has done a lot of this month.

 Well that is all for now folks! I hope you enjoyed the tour. Have a Merry Christmas!