Home Visits

So this week we spent a lot of our nights going on Home Visits to visit our kids and meet their families. A lot of the time we just go to their house and they feed us lots of different types of fruits and we just sit there and smile because we don't know what they're saying. Sometimes though the parents will take us out to dinner. Dinners in restaurants are really interesting here. You always sit on a round table. Usually in the middle of the table there is a rotating round piece of glass that the waiters put the food on so you can just spin the glass to grab whatever food you want with your chopsticks. So hopefully no one is sick :) You have to clean your own chopsticks and ladle with a tea that they pass around. You dump the tea back into a bowl when your through washing your utensils. They bring out the WHOLE animal: Head, feet, arms, thighs, neck, and everything else you can think of... You put the whole piece, that you grab, into your mouth and spit out the bones onto the table when you have gotten all the meat off of it. When your meal is through the desert is either apples or oranges. The best part of the meal is usually the juice. It is always homemade whether that is apple juice, orange juice, watermelon juice, or corn juice. If you don't get juice it is usually STEAMING hot water that you aren't even able to drink until your meal is over. At the very end of the meal you lay your chopsticks together on the table and cover your mouth as you pick out the rest of your meal in your teeth with toothpicks they give you. They are never concerned that they just put an animal's femur bone into their mouth but they are always concerned that they might have something in their teeth :)

Love always, Mandy