Thursday, December 25, 2008

Merry Christmas from Dakar


The tree and Santa

Christmas morning bacon roll...amazing
Homemade rootbeer in Senegal....could be a first


Neighboorhood decorations

Christmas Eve spread...shrimp, chicken, deviled eggs, potato skins, salsa and guacamole, cheeses, cookies, cupcakes, eggnog, rootbeer...can't go wrong

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Hope everyone has had a very merry Christmas and have a safe holidays. Miss you all.
jland

Bacon Cheese Roll

My buddy Peter and I found the inspiration the other day for the bacon cheese roll at http://www.infobarrel.com/Bacon_Cheese_Roll_Recipe. The second we saw this sight, we realized that the inspiration had to become a reality Christmas morning....we were not disappointed.

It consisted of woven bacon, velvetta and swiss cheese, jalepeno peppers, followed with a touch of maple syrup on the finished product.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

The last mention of the soccer game riots....i think

I definitely realized when I was home on vacation that the happenings of the Senegal - Gambia soccer game are not meant nor can they be told in a 3 minute story. For a detailed version, read the account in a previous posts.

To provide a bit more of a visual, another Volunteer pointed me to a couple videos on YouTube that I have posted below.



For this video, you are going to want to go to about 8 minutes and 30 seconds in to start seeing the effects of Senegal's loss.



The isn't the best of videos, but it shows a bit of the burning in the streets.

Vacation Home

While I don't all have the pictures from my trip home yet, but here are a couple.

Uncle and Niece....sleep off

My sister and I actually I and my sister

Family picture with Millie making us proud, front and center