Last update

This is my last opportunity to post a blog before I come home, so I wanted to fill you in on what has happened in the past few weeks.

The Women's Conference. This year's women's conference was a huge success! The women learned what it means to be a daughter of the King and how to live in that. The sessions and worship times were powerful and the small group times proved to be very beneficial. I loved the women in my small group, all 12 of them! Here are some pics of me and some of the women in my small group.

The second day of the women's conference was my birthday. So after the conference ended and we got everything torn down and cleaned up, all the staff and interns went out for dinnner at Spur, one of my favorite restaurants in SA. As we were sitting there "Cotton Eyed Joe" started playing loudly over the speakers and everyone started clapping. Then the Spur employees came out with ice cream that had sparklers stuck in it and sang me Happy Birthday. It was really cool. Here is a pic of me with my ice cream...

Then the day after my birthday, my fellow interns threw me a party. It was perfect! The tables were covered with coloring pages that we could color. There were bubbles, noisemakers, and fun sunglasses and party hats. And we got to decorate our own cup cakes with fun colored frostings. Then we all played a fun game of Cranium! Here are some pics from the party.

On the 11th we drove to Lesotho. It is such a gorgeous country! I think it is the most beautiful place I have ever seen....
This is me standing in the river that separates Lesotho from Souht Africa...I'm in two places at once...
We basically just drove through the country but we did stop at a river for lunch. There were a bunch of little boys playing in the river so we took lots of pictures of them...

Then on the 12th we went to Clarens. It's a really touristy little town. It was fun to look at stuff but it was definitely more of a relaxing day away from the office. Here is me and Kel with our nasty shakes that we got for lunch in Clarens...

We found this fun bathtub with a really pretty background so we decided to hop in and take some pics...

Yesterday was Thanksgiving. It was definitely a Thanksgiving to remember. South Africa doesn’t celebrate this holiday but as Americans living in South Africa, we had to celebrate. With that said, it was a much different Thanksgiving than I am used to. In Alece’s family they have an Italian Thanksgiving followed by a traditional American one. So, today we carried on the tradtion. The first course was salad, pasta and amazing meatballs. After allowing that to settle a little we had the traditional thanksgiving meal; turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and yams. Then after letting that settle for a while and playing a card game or two, we had dessert. I am so glad we had pumpkin pie. That’s my fav and I was a little worried we wouldn’t have it but we did. Yay! I love Thanksgiving! I don’t think I ever realized how much I appreciate the company of family and friends but I really do.

I love all of you. And I will be home really soon to see you all. Tomorrow we leave for Cape Town and then I leave South Africa on the 2nd and I'll be home on the 3rd.