Filipino Feast

I think I did well, I've been blogging for almost a month and this is the first somewhat work related post. We had a Filipino group at the mission this weekend for their church family retreat. Sometimes it may be hard to figure out who's hosting who since we get invited to join most groups for meals and also some of their programs (since one of us has to be on premise whenever we have a group, Jeff didn't come to church with us, but joined them in their service)
Anyway, yesterday evening we got invited for supper. It was a feast: Pasta, rice, fish, chicken, pizza, veggies, salad, steak, ham, shrimp, you name it they had it it seemed. The neat thing was that most of them didn't use a plate, instead they had banana leaves spread on the table to serve as plates. Also cutlery was optional and knives were totally absent. We've gotten used that most filipino groups don't use knives, so we bring one to cut up the meat for the girls.

Katie and Maya both loved the corn - as you can see

..and the cake too;)

When we got back to our apartment, I had some laundry that needed folding yet. Both girls immediately proceeded to "help" with the laundry. Gotta love little helpers.