Ethiopian Celebration

Thanks to everyone who came to our Ethiopian Celebration! We had such a wonderful time, and truly appreciate all of the donations everyone brought. Here's a look at all the goods we get to bring with us (in less than 4 weeks!).


We had dabo kolo (little fried snacks), pork wot (which seemed to be most people's favorite), amhari (veggi bowl), atar allecha (spiced green pea puree), injera (Ethiopian spongie bread), mesir wat (red lentil puree), and zizil alecha (beef and green pepper stew).


For dessert we had lemon ice cream bonbons, banana chocolate chip cupcakes, and coffee chocolate cupcakes.



We had many party games and prizes for the winners (prizes are proudly displayed on the heads of the winners below). First was "find Ethiopia on the map", which was won by Camille (Elijah and Kristin also got close). Staci won the "identify the tribe/region these folks are from" with a bonus 2 points for correctly identifying the region Merete is from. The team of Camille and Cara won the trivia contest.


The kids played "pin the Ethiopian flag on Ethiopa", and Tyler was the grand winner!


Here are some random pictures of fun :-)