Sunday = Funday (Part 1)

We have got into quite a rhythm now both in our day-to-day routines and in what we get up to at the weekends ... including Mark cooking his girlies a big breakfast on Saturday mornings!!

These last two Sunday's have been a little different though and a refreshing change for us. On June 2nd it was Jenny's birthday. After being spoilt with some cards and presents over breakfast (at 7.30am), Abigail soon declared 'From tomorrow morning Mummy will have to wait a long time for her next birthday'! The rest of us thought we might enjoy this birthday first!

After church we went out for lunch to the Chinese restaurant at the Dodoma Hotel (one of only two places that are really worth going out to!!), so no cooking for the birthday girl! We had lots of fun being silly, taking pictures of each other round the table and enjoying the yummy food.

There is a little playground outside at the Dodoma Hotel and the girls couldn't wait to have a play after the meal. It is a little dilapidated (like there is a big hole at the top and the bottom of the slide, making it un-slidable) but it didn't stop us having fun. As you can see some little people were a bit more adventurous than their two years should make them!!

In the afternoon we went to celebrate the 1st birthday of a little Australian boy along with some of our friends! He was a little bit taken aback by the 'firework' candle ... but very much enjoyed eating the chocolate cake! The observant among you will spot 2 candles on the 'No 1' shaped cake. The second one was for Jenny!

As Jenny isn't into cake all that much, she decided to experiment a little and bake birthday croissants instead ... a treat we used to enjoy in the 'real' world but can't get here! We have a dodgy oven which likes to blast top down without always cooking in the middle thoroughly, so for future reference we will need to be a little bit more careful but they didn't turn out too badly for a first attempt! 

We invited our neighbours in for tea ... birthday croissant style and had various sweet and savoury fillings for them!

Once all the munchkins were asleep, the adults reconvened to watch Les Miserables (one of Jenny's birthday presents!) ... in amongst the power cuts!!!

It is thirteen years since Jenny last celebrated her birthday in Dodoma. Do you know what though? She celebrated it in the very house that we now call home, never envisaging that she's be back as a MAF wife, with two children in tow celebrating it here again! It certainly was a fun day!