Thanksgiving Thankful Countdown 2015 - November 2nd  

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We are having some busy days getting ready to move to Utah, so I didn't get this written yesterday :) That, and we really got no sleep the night before, so we headed to bed instead.


So Monday, I got most of our closets packed. It's finally close enough I could pick out outfits for the last few days and pack the rest of it. I was worried we wouldn't be able to get out to do anything since our landlady was coming sometime in the morning to inventory and the lawyer was supposed to come by in the afternoon to give us back our passports, which he needed to cancel our residency. Thankfully, inventorying was more just asking if everything was still here. (When we first moved in, it took forever to go through everything, and all I wanted was to decompress and maybe take a nap.) And then the lawyer showed up way earlier in the day than he said to give us our passports. All of this meant we could get ready and go to Inka Market before we went to dinner with friends. This meant we had one less thing to try to fit in on Tuesday. Also, in order to justify doing more Tuesday, I had to get more packing done on Monday. It all worked out :)

Our good friends, the McMillens, decided they wanted to take us to dinner Monday night to see us one last time, so we took our stuff home, nursed the baby, and went to El Hornero in San Isidro. They got caught in traffic (typical Lima :)) and so they were running late. Matt did an over-under from 6:30 (we were supposed to meet at 6pm). I guessed over, and Matt won with three minutes to spare. He was actually just conceding victory (apparently his phone said it was already 6:30) when they pulled up. He quickly changed his tune to claim victory haha.
Andrew liked the nakey statue while we were waiting for the McMillens.

I'm grateful we have been able to have such good friends here in Peru. It has been so nice to have people to play with or lean on, to give moral support, to speak English with! McMillens took Henlie for us when Andrew was born. The girls love to play with her, and she loves to play with them. Eliza has been in our primary class, and she's so full of energy. She's an amazing friend to everyone and always wants to offer the prayer :) Abby and Rob are both so generous. Not only did they take us out to a super nice, yummy restaurant, but Abby brought a birthday gift for Henlie and Held a grumpy Andrew while I ate. We are truly blessed with such good friends, even if I give Rob a hard time about being short ;)

Also, let's just talk about the food at El Hornero. It was so yummy! We ordered lots of things and then did it family style. The steak (imported) was so good and melty. The veggies were yummy. The pasta sauce was so yummy. The french fries were yummy. I love to eat good food :) One thing Peru has taught us is to appreciate good food. We're going to try to eat more local-grown things because it's just 1,000 times better. So much better. We shall also miss mangos.

We also got dessert, and since they found out Henlie's birthday is on the 4th, they told the waiter and they brought her a mango treat with a candle. Then we sang in true Peruvian fashion and she blew out the candle, and Isabelle was sad it wasn't her birthday. We shared yummy treats, and they offered us a ride home.
Happy birthday to Henlie!

 We'd had grumpy, tired children all day, so thankfully they went to sleep fairly easily, and so did we :)

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