A house full of guests

Right now is spring break for Abeline Christian University.  Some students from there are in Honduras with my dad, and another group of them is here in CR working with our church for the week.  Last week, I told Ronald that I wanted to have the group and his family over to our house to eat.  All together there were 24 of us in o ur little 600 sq foot house.  Fortunately, there is a parking area in front of the apartment.  I made two huge pots of gumbo, and what I thought was a ton of rice.  The rice and the first pot of gumbo was demolished very quickly.  Honestly, I have never seen food go so fast, even when we brought the gumbo to the homeless of Baton Rouge.  We also had some delicious Oreo cake from MusMani, the local bakery.  We enjoyed talking with the students from ACU and they knew the only 2 people we know that go there, Chris Shim and Jordan Ellis.

After dinner, some girls were trying to teach Alejandra and Luis how to do the Texas two-step.  Alejandra loves to dance, but said country music was the worst music she has ever heard.  A while later, other girls discovered that we had just dance so everyone piled in our living room and played.  I don't think that a single one of the men could dance, even the Costa Rican men.  We all laughed hysterically, especially when Ronald the preacher tried to dance.  The other funny dancer was Esteban, Ronald's son.  As soon as he realized he had no chance against his sister, he just started moving as fast as he could doing nothing that resembled the dance.

We laughed throughout the night.  We love having people in our home, and I am pretty sure that the college students welcomed the break from having meals where their host family doesn't understand anything they are saying.  Most people would say that a small 2 bedroom apartment is not big enough to entertain so many people.  I beg to differ.  We were all thouroughly entertained.