Thanksgiving & Preparing for India...

My parents came down to visit and celebrate an early thanksgiving with us November 13th. This was my attempt at making thanksgiving dinner.

This year their trip was filled (as it always is when they visit) with projects and more projects. This year my dad and Sol helped fix: our front door, areas where our soffit had rotted, our fence gate, our cars, and other small projects like floor trim around the house. My mom and I were busy sewing an Indian Kurti and a Salwar Kameez for me to wear for my trip to India.

Here is one of the finished products - Thanks Mom!

Some other items I will be needing for India:

GoGirl - so us ladies can pee more easily into the holes in the ground when we are out and about. Google "GoGirl" to get an idea what I'm talking about.

To go along with my 6 vaccinations - Lots of drugs!

Malaria drugs - well you can guess why
Papaya enzyme - to help digest the new and different foods
Prescription strength emergency stomach meds - again, Indian food
Over the counter stomach meds - are you getting the picture?

Oh and lets not forget the passport...

and my India Visa!
and the list goes on....

I leave Saturday morning for NYC and then we depart for India at 8:20pm. We will be arriving in Mumbai Sunday at 9pm! That's all I have to offer you for now. Keep checking, I will try to post a few pictures and updates while I'm there!
Oh, and call my husband, he might get bored during the 10 days I'm gone. Then again he might not :)

F is for FAIR, frog legs, freak shows, farm animals, and friends...

...and the best of all those Fs is FRIENDS! Gosh I'm cheesy, sorry. Anyways, back in October Jonas and Laura, two of our friends from college, came to visit us in Little Rock. Jonas is currently stationed in Enterprise, AL and has just graduated from his black hawk pilot training there (CONGRATS JONAS!). Laura is currently living in Memphis, and working at the University as a student activity coordinator. Since they were relatively close they made the drive so we could all be together one last time before Jonas moves away to his new base in Honolulu, HI!

Saturday we went to the Arkansas State Fair and we all got to share the southern fair experience with our friends. The fair offered a whole new level of people watching, the best and longest corndogs in the world, deep fried frog legs and did I mention awesome people watching? We ventured through the cow barns, visited with the goats, ducks and horses and watched the new born piglets as they  fought each other for a spot to eat.

After getting our fix of animals we decided to spend the extra three bucks on the freak show (which we were pretty sure was going to be a joke). After walking inside the tent I was immediately angry that I had given up three whole dollars to look at a bunch of mannequin replicas of freaks from the past. After all most of the people working inside the tent didn't look too much different from the people walking around the fair, that is until the show began. Once the freaks came out we got to see a man who swallowed everything from swords to light sabers then hammered a nail straight back into his head through his nostril. The show went on with a girl who climbed a ladder made of machetes, lifted heavy things with a chain attached to her tongue and girl who was able to juggle flaming batons and put them out and re-lit them with her mouth.

Here are a few pictures of our weekend adventures:

^Jonas and Laura eating the famous Corn Dogs

Below you will see the frog legs... Yes, they did eat them.

Me and Laura rating the "freak show" a thumbs down... Until the real freaks came out 

College Family Photo- We love you guys!