Wamego Christmas Kick-Off

Christmas celebrations started here in Wamego tonight with a parade down Lincoln (main street), followed by the lighting of christmas lights in the town park. It seemed like most of the town turned out for this event.

The parade consisted mostly of tractors and farm equipment decorated in christmas lights - even Santa rode a tractor!

Afterwards, everyone walked down to the town park to wait for the lights to come on. To our surprise, the lighting ceremony began with prayer, recognizing the christmas season as "a celebration of our Savior's birth." Then the whole town counted down together "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2...1" ....And then the park was sparkling with Christmas lights (including a prominent Nativity.)

Everyone milled around and looked at the lights, families with young children lined up to see Santa Claus, and other (including us!) enjoyed free hot cocoa and cookies. What a fun small-town Christmas celebration. And the best part? We have a front row view of the lights every night. Even as I am sitting here on our couch writing this, I'm looking out of our front window at the Christmas lights. I am definitely feeling in the Christmas spirit!

One of the parade floats.

















The dogs saw their very first parade.

























Lights in the park - Santa flying over the bridge over the pond.








<---The Dutch windmill with Christmas lights in the park.



Christmas tree and reflection in the pond.



















The Wamego Museum was opened up, where we got hot chocolate and cookies.























-Leah and John
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Thanksgiving Success!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

We miss our family and friends very much!

Even though it was just the two of us for Thanksgiving this year, we decided to still go all out and cook a big Thanksgiving dinner. We made a big turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, two different kinds of stuffing, pumpkin pie and apple pie. We are very proud of ourselves, because everything was wonderful.

In the process, we realized that our kitchen is lacking some necessities for making these holiday dinners....a roasting pan, a baster, a carving knife etc. etc. But we improvised and everything worked out. (Although, we might need to add a few pieces to our kitchen before Christmas comes around.)

Here are a few pictures from our day.....






















John was the official turkey and gravy maker.



















Stuffing, hot out of the oven.

















We are going to be eating this dinner for the next two weeks...we have so much food left over.






































We hardly had room for dessert, but after a nice long walk, we managed.





















Happy Thanksgiving!

--Leah & John
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Fat Tire
For anyone looking for some good beer to try....we found some. We bought a sampler pack - I beleive it was called the "Folly Pack" - which included Fat Tire, Mothership Wit (an organic beer), 1554, and Trippel. Amazingly, all four were excellent. It was some of the best beer we've tasted in quite a while.

While Leah was very excited to try an organic beer, the 1554 was our favorite, hands-down. To describe it, 1554 is a Dark/Light beer. It's definitely a dark beer, but yet it's light? Honestly, I'm not sure how to describe it. Here's the description from the New Belgium website:

1554 Enlightened Black Ale uses a light lager yeast strain and dark chocolaty malts to redefine what dark beer can be. It has all the malty complexity of a dark beer, with that light bodied crispness of an easy drinking session beer.


See, they did a much better job at describing it than I could have. The beer is made in Colorado, and New Belgium looks like a pretty cool company too. Check out their website:

http://www.newbelgium.com/


-John and Leah
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Fall in Oz
Erica asked what fall in Kansas looks like (fall in England sounds lovely Erica!), so we thought we would share a few autumn photos of Wamego. These were all taken within a short walking distance from our front porch.

We were very happy and relieved to actaully have an autumn....for a while it was looking like we were going straight into winter!























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