“Braai” is Afrikaans for barbecue!! And they are obsessed with them here! Don’t worry…they still call BBQ sauce BBQ sauce…but don’t know what a BBQ is. That’s fine. J Except it is different. How, you ask? No gas!! Hahaha! They make fun of our BBQs because we use gas! Even charcoal is made fun of as taking the easy way out. Haha! Oh, the differences. Pretty sure pops gets a hard time back home for busting out the charcoal every now and then because it’s so old school. Haha! Honestly though, straight wood fire in the fire pit and grill. It’s so fun!!
Brief South African Culture Lesson!!
It’s customary to host someone new in town or new anywhere with a South African Braai! How fun is that?! So…we’ve enjoyed them to say the least…let’s just count them all, why don’t we?
#1 - when we first got here, Joe and Sarah (the people taking care of the house we’re in for the summer), hosted a braai for us at our house, invited friends here and we had a blast!
#2 – Lennell and I’s work had one for us our first week as well! On the rooftop of our building (pics to come)!
#3 – We had one for the Waco team when they came to visit!
#4 – Justin, a friend here, and his wife had a fish braai for us! It was yummy!! Borderline the best one we had…no, no…I think for sure it was the best.
#5 – 4th of July!! You better believe we invited over all our American friends here in the Cape and had a good ol` Braai and listened to a whole lot of patriotic music. Duh!!
#6 – We had one for a couple of my favorites at work a few days ago – Christine and Dannese.
We’ve had more, but those are the ones we can think of off the top of our heads. J As you can see, we’ve definitely had way more guests than we ever imagined. We’ve just had more events than we ever assumed having to be quite honest. I mean…we’re in South Africa…we thought we’d be in our own little world for 9 weeks. WRONG. Haha!! Thank goodness b/c it’s been so fun meeting so many wonderful people and just sharing life, laughs and food with them!
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