Christmas: Part II

Since my mom and dad came for Christmas, and we haven't been home for a Christmas in five years, I wanted to try and recreate out traditional "Schlomer Family" Christmas. Yes, oyster stew and all!

To accommodate all our guest, we had FM set a tent, or two, up in our back yard. Since it rains in Tembag every now and again... Ha ha ha!! Understatement of the century! It rains ALL THE TIME!  This is why the need for tents...  It just so happened that the night the tent was first set up, there was a torrential down pour and at 12:30 in the morning, CRASH! Needless to say the "crash" woke all the adults up, "What the heck was that?"  Dad thought someone had fallen down the stairs!

So we call FM first thing in the morning and they were great getting everything set back up in time for the party!

Before the party could begin, a friend of ours, took the kids and dad down to Banti, a local Papuan village. They too were getting ready to celebrate Christmas, in their own way, with a traditional pig roast. It just so happened that they needed some extra muscle to help move the hot stones on to the pigs and Teddy just happened to be there to help! :)

(These photos are all courtesy of our friend Merv.)

Not many people can say they have visited an indigenous Papuan village, but our kids can say that and say that they participated in traditional Papuan pig roast!  What an experience!

Now in to the party!!

Christmas Eve was so much fun!!  We had so many people over to the house and sooooo much food!!  My mom did make oyster stew, with canned oysters a friend brought in from Australia. I made the traditional Sloppy Joe's. It was as close to a Schlomer Christmas Eve that you could get:

Great Food!  Great Friends!  Great Family!

I was too busy running around to take pictures, so thank you to my friend Danella for snapping some photos for me!  The boys were off running in the jungle with their friends, so no pictures of them and unfortunately, mom, like many others arriving at site, got hit with a bug and celebrated for a little while, but then called it an early night, so no picture of her. :(

As you can see, it was truly a night that memories are made from!  Whether in the United States or in Papua Indonesia, Christmas is celebrated to the fullest!  

Jesus Christ our Savior is Born! Hallelujah!