February 4 is Zach’s birthday and lucky for him it is also a local holiday, “National Armed Struggles Day” (I had no clue what that was, but I just google-ed it and it is...the anniversary of the outbreak of the armed struggle against Portuguese colonialism). Since everyone gets the day off of work and school we decided we would have a party in the morning and make breakfast for everyone. The kids all came to the party in their pajamas and slippers. We served pikelets (pancakes), blueberry muffins, cut up bananas grown right here on the compound, juice, coffee and, of course, birthday cake! It was really fun! The pikelets were a big hit! After breakfast we played a few games- balance the egg on the spoon relay and duck, duck goose- and then we opened presents and had cake! Short and sweet! And Nolan was nice enough to volunteer to clean up all the sticky syrup and cake crumbs for us!
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So fun!!!! Where do people buy gifts? I know you can't send toys....are there toy stores there? By the way, I reminded Tom on the 4th that it was Zach's birthday and he said he refuses to celebrate after you wouldn't let him "cook" for two more days.
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