Dinner at Goli's

After a full day of home schooling and helping out at the school (I'll have to tell you about some of the work we're doing in a future post), we went out to Goli's house for dinner. She was the Baha'i that picked us up at the train station.

We had a wonderful meal prepared by different families. It was Thai food, of course. There were a couple of different curries, a hot chili paste, soup with coconut milk and chicken, skewers of chicken and pork, and for dessert warm bananas in sweetened sauce from coconut milk. Everything was really delicious, but the girls' favourite was the meat skewers.

After dinner we had an impromptu game of identify the Petshop. The girls had brought their Littlest Petshop animals, and so we lined them all up and Yasmin and Roya would have to say the name of a type of animal and the other kids, with some help from the adults, would pick them out of the group.

That led to other games where the kids and their parents were blindfolded and the kids then had to feed a banana to their parent. Nadim and Yasmin came in second. Roya kept feeding the banana to my chest and neck! I guess she thought I was a little shorter than I am!

We finished the evening playing a game of shrinking boats. We started with a large sheet of newspaper that our family could all stand on quite comfortably, but we kept having to fold it in half and prove that we still fit, by balancing for 5 seconds. We ended with a piece of paper the size of one foot. Lots of fun, and lots of laughs!

On another note, you can also see Goli's living room in the picture above. There were no chairs. We sat cross-legged on thick square cushions on the floor. The kids quite enjoyed this and almost started a pillow fight with some of the other kids... oops!

CM