Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

Well, you'd be surprised... but St. Patrick's day has no significance here... We are all alone in our celebrating, except for a few other american families.. There is an O'hagans restaurant here, but I'm not sure of their Irish flair.. We had samoosas there one night, as well as garlic bread and mealie pap.. they do have Guinness though. I went to get sausage at the shop, for my bangers and mash, and all the sausages were rotten.. god they stunk.. I was checking out and the bag boy said... 'you want this?' We smelled the package together and we agreed..It wasn't a good buy. then came the fiasco of returning an item that you didn't want.. I had just bought it, was at the same checkout counter.. but was directed to the Inquiry kiosk, told to wait, had to explain why I didn;t want the sausage, filled out an explanation form, and made the swap for Boerwurst instead of pork sausage. Luckily, the bottle shop next door had Guinness.. My friend Dineo asked who this St. patrick was I was celebrating.. i told her it wasn't worth explaining.. basically everyone gets drunk, calls it a day and that's it.. that elplanation seemed to suffice.

We had a great weekend, nothing happened.. Looking forward to Michelle's brother Matt arriving on Friday. take my advice matt, take advantage of the free drinks. It rained all weekend , uprooting trees in our backyard and flooding the streets. It turned cold.. probably feels exactly what it is at home. hopefully it will warm up for the weekend. The kids are still doing great... Maura is really digging school... They don't publicly state that they are a Christian school, but she's been coming home with some small projects that are religiously charged.It's kind of scary. Yet, she's making easter eggs, and we have a teddy bear tea party tomorrow. Jude and franny continue to master the local language.... Celeste has taught them Maoto(foot) as well. And Jude continues to wow locals with his greeting as we walk past people... Something like.... doodoodoodooo-rrrrrrraaaaaa! good stuff.

Tuesday morning now...... went out for a bit last night after dinner with friends paul and Jonathan. Went to Linga Longa and O'Hagans... not very exciting... no irish flair, a few green balloons, but nothing else. http://www.pub.co.bw/ Check out this web site.. they pride themselves on 8 different draft beers.. What they don't tell you is that none of those draft beers are working... that is the actual place we went by the way. The photos for the day are... Kate with Dineo, Boitumelo and Gofa at the local bottle shop, and a decorated home in Gabane.