Cesario and I decided that this year we were going to be the guests and not the hosts. Although we love entertaining we felt like we wanted a break from buying food, cooking and cleaning plus it would be fun to do something different. Different it was this year as we also chose to volunteer a portion of our morning and afternoon to serving Thanksgiving dinner at the USO.
Our friend Liz works for the USO and we decided to assist her at the camp she was going too. Liz, Cesario and I left around 1130am to get to Camp Hansen by noon. It took us about 20 minutes to arrive. Camp Hansen is Marine camp in the northern area of Okinawa and is primarily comprised of single marines. Once in the USO, Marines began to trickle in and the next thing you know we had lines of people. We ended up serving 576 single Marines. All of them were nice and courteous, thanking us for what we were doing. Most were extremely young and it took everything I had to hold back the tears. Such young men and women so far from home and yet so content with what was being provided. We went ahead and finished up and headed out.
We spent the evening with our friends and were greatful to Andrew and Cindy Ramos for allowing us to be guests at their home for Thanksgiving. I was more thankful for the scrumptious lumpia, chicken wings and traditional Thanksgiving hotdogs they had. Granted they had the typical turkey spread but loved that they had other stuff too. They even provided us with leftover turkey for Kenzie and Maggie.
We started our turkey consumption on Wednesday (the day before Thanksgving) and continued until Saturday night. We ended up having Thanksgiving at 4 different locations over 4 days. We are so greatful to have such wonderful people in our lives.
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