A Live Chicken I Bring, pa rum pa pum pummm

Tomorrow is January 7, Christmas on the Ethiopian calendar.  Everyone (who can afford it) cooks a local chicken dish called Doro Wat and party party party... What better way to celebrate Jesus' birthday than to buy a live chicken at the market (or 3)?  Andrew and Jackson went with Tariku and Eyerus to the market and brought the chickens home.  We wanted to leave the chickens at our house for a bit before handing them off to the neighbors. Naturally.  Turns out chickens are LOADS of fun.  Jackson kept wanting to "water" them, but instead we just chased them around.  Andrew caught two of them when it was time to wrangle them and tie them back together.  Yes.  Tie them back together.  When you get chickens at the market, they tie their two (nasty) chicken feet together and you just carry it home upside down by the feet!  It's great!  They chill out when they're upside down.  Since we brought three home, they were all tied to each other.  Best activity of EthioChristmas? Six-legged chicken race.  Yes, please.

So we spent the afternoon at our neighbor's house having loads of fun just visiting while everyone was making preparations.  Felt like Christmas!  Jackson loves hanging out over there, bossing everyone around and running amuck.  It's great!  But boy does it drain him!  Can't do it every day...Maybe I'll get around to posting pics or video someday.  Not as easy as words from over here!