After our Thanksgiving in Palacios we had another one in Santa Cruz! More or less we had Douglas's entire family over, along with Tesoro's family and some other friends from Galenes. Meg was also in town for this one. Again, the food was delicious and we conquered cooking our first Turkeys. My only suggestion for next year is make two apple pies and buy some icecream to go along with it.

Food Prep x's 2

Meg working the gravy

Double checking recipes on the computer

And on to the mashed potatoes....

 More mashing....

 And more....

 Done with the pappas...time to eat

Kiddie table?

Palacios Thanksgiving

So since it is almost April I thought I should finish up our posts from last year that we never completed....Thanksgiving, graduations, more time with Meg....So here goes.

Our Palacios Thanksgiving

We ended up having amazing Thanksgivings. We had our first Thanksgiving (on Thanksgiving) in Palacios with everyone at the clinic and played a little two hand touch American Football before dinner. I still don't think everyone understands the rules but it was a really fun time with just one or two collisions...

 The Prep Team

 

 Fried Turkey Chef....Thanks Alex

 

Some Pre-Dinner Football (TURKEY BOWL)...too busy playing to take more than a picture

 The Dinner and Desert Spreads

I'm sorry I had to include this because the pineapple was just so beautifully cut!

 

Grace and Dinner...you can only see about half our guests. Dinner was delicious and I'm pretty sure there were no leftover desserts.

Uyuni...Part 3

 Starting the day off with a sunset over the Laguna Roja, a trip to the geysers and the hot springs. When we first got to the hot springs it was packed so our guide took us on a short trip to see some other stuff and when we returned we had the springs practically to ourselves!

Geysers

 Hot Springs

 

 

 

 On our way, Meg in our jeep...

 Back to Laguna Roja during the day

 

 

 

More driving and more sights. It felt like we drove through every possible landscape of the world...desert, minerals, ice, pastures, mountains, plains, rocks, everything! It was amazing.

Quinoa field, one of the largest crops in this area

 

 

Our last set of rocks to climb. Some of us chose to tackle the larger ones....others not so much.

 

 

 

 

 

 
The end of our trip after we returned to Uyuni, with our driver and cook (I feel really bad but I can't remember their names!). Although we were all ready to be done with the jeep by the end of day 3, and even though most of us had somehow caught a cold during the week, the trip was amazing and unlike anything we'd ever done. We loved it.