National Bahrain Day

Tyler started his Christmas vacation yesterday and as a promise to him when school was in session I told him that we could do some more Christmas tree ornaments. This morning we made some cars (yes, Tyler insisted we include cars) stockings, and gingerbread men ornaments out of felt and decorated them with glitter glue. They turned out pretty cute and as soon as they finish drying, we'll add them to our tree.

Then as another promise, we made some butter tarts. Both Steve and Tyler didn't get to sample the butter tarts I made for the school's International Thanksgiving Feast as they went like hot cakes. Tyler assisted me in the baking today by mixing and adding the raisins. Tyler said they were his new favorite snack and Steve loved them as well.

Our day ended with some fireworks!! Steve sent me a text on the way home from work to say that the park near our villa was going to have fireworks to celebrate National Bahrain Day and that we should be able to see them from our rooftop. After we ate dinner, we got our chairs and headed upstairs to wait for them to start. It was about an hour and a half later (Bahrainis are late for everything!) when a town from a distance had theirs. About 40 minutes later, our town finally had theirs. It was cold outside and we had to wear our warm clothes, but we had Italian hot chocolate and butter tarts to help keep us happy while waiting. LOL Steve tried to take some photos, but we were too far away to get some good ones.