Mother~Daughter Banquet May 7, 2010

On Friday, May 7th was our Mother~Daughter Banquet. Earlier in the day, I had been contemplating what I was going to be wearing for the evening. I was very excited since this was going to be my first banquet here. As I was dutifully doing my work in the office that morning, the outside door opened and in walked a man from our congregation. He and his wife (who is from the Philippines) and were gone over there for six weeks visiting her family! They are wonderful people and Dennis & I had just been talking a few days prior to this that it seemed like it was about time for their return to Cayman and here he was walking into my office :o) In my excitement to see him I walked over to the counter and he handed me a hat. Here they had brought it for me clear from the Philippines!! How very, very thoughtful of them. So, immediately I knew I had the hat for the banquet, but still wasn't sure of the dress. After finishing up my work, I hurried home and started looking through my closet and this is what I came up with!
This is our dear friend whom I was sharing about a few posts back with Dennis. He catered our banquet. I knew it was going to be good eating :o)

And with me

A view of our cafeteria and music room combined all decorated and ready for the ladies

Our dear friend and school cook, Mazie

Fixing up his delicious homemade German Chocolate Cake. I didn't have a piece at the banquet, but he gave me some before at his restaurant.

Two more super good friends who are teachers ~ Imogene and Jean. They both are from Jamaica.

Here is the plate of food that was served to me ~ beef noodle stir fry, fritters, white rice, curried chicken, lemon grouper and plantains along with my little dish of "HOT" sauce.

The two girls I adopted to take to the banquet. On the left is April who is Jr. High and Nikita who graduates this year. They are sweet girls!!

The Premier helped the men to serve. It was an honor for us that he took time out of his busy schedule to be there. His wife, daughter and grand~daughter came to the banquet.

Here are some of the men getting plates of food to serve.

This picture cracks me up ~ two bald or almost bald heads :o)

Then I had them pose for me! Garfield is a wonderful man who grew up in our Church. He retired a few years ago from being head of Customs at our airport.

One of my good friends whom I've known for several years from Youth Camp in PA.

Another of my good friends being presented flowers by her daughter. I've known them for a long time, too!! Sweet ladies!!

Here's a group shot of our waiters. Several of them are missing from this picture. Maybe they were waiting on the ladies :o)

Here are my two "adopted" daughters with me.

And another of just the two of them!

What a great evening we had and lots of good food!!