People have asked us what we are eating here..... We have been going to lunch with the Preators most days and having our bigger meal at noon then just soup or something light at night.  The fruits (see my mango, pineapple, banana drink above) and veggies here are really good! The avocados and carrots are HUGE.  The bananas are too ripe but good in muffins.  Apples are pretty good and we had a good grapefruit for breakfast this morning.  We found YUMMY Raisin Bran and granola cereal a couple of days ago but it was $6 / box!  We are still looking for GOOD peanut butter and for brown sugar and chocolate chips but no luck. (Note: We JUST got back from lunch at Bro. Wright's (U.S. Embassy) and he gave us BROWN SUGAR from the commissary!! Woo hoo!  Too bad he is heading home in October.... : /)

The meat is a little scary (see the animal ~ a lamb? ~ in the meat case at a market!!) .... but it's pretty good in some restaurants.  The plate shown was our meal at the Selam Orphanage.  It was a 5 course meal, fixed and served by teenage girls from the orphanage.  YUM!  Besides the plate, we had a little taste of pasta, salad, soup and dessert!  The picture at the bottom shows us at the Hilton Hotel for lunch on Thursday with the two other senior couples in Addis ~ Campbells on the left from Hurricane,UT and Preators on the right from Burlington, Wyo.  (The fourth couple, the Tanners from Canada are 3 1/2 hours away in Awassa.)  My caesar salad was NOT good but they liked their tomato soup.  Our chicken fajitas were yummy and I almost cried when they brought out a HOT FUDGE banana split for us to share!!! Ice cream here is about $30 / for less than a gallon....Their bread and rolls are REALLY good here!! Yippee! (I doubt I am going to lose any weight! : / )