Our first Christmas Party!

so yesterday night (sat) we had our first Christmas Party of the season. I like Christmas. Anyhow.. Our Christmas party was shared with Friends from our bible study group. Who for those of you that don't know, our Bible study group is a group that meets in the camp's main building and it is just who ever lives around here. Because our camp is so huge, we have people who live in cabins along the lake shore and so they come to this bible study. The funny thing is that they are all almost above the age of 60, except for our boss Kari. So there is a 30-40 year difference kind of thing. But it is great! When we arrived at the house of one of the members we were greeted by that member and his wife and their many pets. They have two dogs that we saw but she talked of more, they were little poodles. Then they had Jack, a talking parrot, who must have been really hungry because all he ever wanted was a piece of pie and when he saw the cookies come out, it was now a cookie. -Never satisfied:P. Anyhow so we started with the meal. Course I didn't tell anyone that I was a Celiac. Like how do you put that into normal conversation. "So Jesus is pretty cool eh?" "Yeah, totally - hey did you know I'm a Celiac?" Not too smooth. So as I watched the preparations I came to notice that almost everything that people brought was covered in unknown sauces with hidden gluten then there were the obvious ones like stuffing in the Turkey. So I grabbed what I could and we brought food that was gluten free so I loaded up, but we made Kapuns and Andreas made the broth twice as strong so it was quite salty. (everyone liked them but I felt like my arteries were clogging so I wonder how they felt) But none the less I love Kapuns and they were good, just not too many. And there were some other dishes like "spuds" It was really funny a pile of people had to share about their dishes before we could eat. So we ate and visited. There was this one guy Adolf who was just decked out he had flashing ties, sequence covered his suspenders and his santa had was backwards or inside out or something. He's just a funny crazy guy. But after super we had our gift exchange which was entertaining. We did it where we could steal from others... Andreas and I have a hard time doing that, especially when your so new to the group, we feel awkward. Oh well. It was a fun time though, and next week we get to go to a play with the group, a nice couple helped us by buying us the tickets to the play. I love being in a group learning from amazing and funny people who have a little bit of wisdom and experience on their side. They are very supportive and I almost am alright with not having friends our age, almost. I wouldn't mind a few and I think Andreas would really like some too. :) Anyhow that's all for now! Next I'll let you know how the play goes and our staff party! Bowling! :)