This year we were very lucky to have our MCC Sudan retreat in Ethiopia. The retreat was planned by the magnificent Heather Ruthy and Joely Ricardo (who may or may not have posted a very similar blog to this one yesterday - apologies to the seven of you readers who follow both blogs). We were hosted, shuttled, and toured around by the equally magnificent Daniel, Karin, and Ada (that is a link to their mostly defunct blog - this is public shaming Kliewer/Leonards - write a new blog post!).
While in Ethiopia we ate delicious food, drank delicious coffee (me) and delicious avocado juice (luke), spent time on retreat from life in South Sudan, enjoyed wearing socks, hiked a gorgeous hike, sang, laughed, and reflected together. We played a lot of Carcassonne. In Addis we visited an MCC partner, and spent an evening gorging ourselves on delicious food while watching traditional dances from around the country. Luke and I avoided all forms of food poisoning (which cannot be said for all of MCC Sudan), and we tried kitfo for the first time - and loved it! I am beginning to think that with my love of sushi, kitfo, and carrot sticks (also available in Ethiopia) I may soon jump aboard the raw-food-train (pending the invention of raw pie, french fries and pancakes of course).
And here is a collage of some of the aforementioned wonders of the MCC Sudan Retreat in Ethiopia:
While in Ethiopia we ate delicious food, drank delicious coffee (me) and delicious avocado juice (luke), spent time on retreat from life in South Sudan, enjoyed wearing socks, hiked a gorgeous hike, sang, laughed, and reflected together. We played a lot of Carcassonne. In Addis we visited an MCC partner, and spent an evening gorging ourselves on delicious food while watching traditional dances from around the country. Luke and I avoided all forms of food poisoning (which cannot be said for all of MCC Sudan), and we tried kitfo for the first time - and loved it! I am beginning to think that with my love of sushi, kitfo, and carrot sticks (also available in Ethiopia) I may soon jump aboard the raw-food-train (pending the invention of raw pie, french fries and pancakes of course).
And here is a collage of some of the aforementioned wonders of the MCC Sudan Retreat in Ethiopia:
Winnipeg Jets t-shirt!!!!! whoa whoa whoa! Who is that?! PS jets won in Buffalo, and I made a sparkly sign; it was awesome. Not gonna lie, glad I didn't endure more carcassonne. Glad you guys had a gooooood time!
ReplyDeletexoxo E.
sign me up for carcassone in ethiopia any day!
ReplyDeleteGlad you had a good time...although I'd love to see big pictures of your adventures. The collage is useful, but hard to see the strategies being employed in Carcassone.
ReplyDeleteCount me in for Carcassone, or a rousing game of Dominion, with one or more expansion sets!
Love you!