Fine Dining!

                                               Love them but don't know the name

 Last week, Nirina, his daughter Mity Rose (whom he carries down the street to school on his shoulders), his wife Tahiry, and baby daughter Tania came to visit us.  It was fun to meet the whole family.  Such nice people.

Baby Tania is a big flirt.  We were making clicking noises at each other.

Tahiry is a PEF student, just accepted into a new program which will lead to a great and lucrative job for him.  He is excited, obviously!

We had lunch on Saturday at La Varangue, a fancy and well-known restaurant in Tana.  They have many antique collections, which were food for the eyes 

  

Glass vases along the ledge.

Nice brass pots...are they spittoons?

These looked well-loved

View of a church from the balcony where we ate

                      

                                        We'll look even happier when the food arrives!

That foie gras was amazing...

                                                                Nice presentations

Dessert...pouring more chocolate on the chocolate "explosion"

It's starting to "explode;" i.e. melt

Still melting...you can now see the ice cream inside 

A Ministry across the street

                                                            Sr. Richards liked this

Sr. Richards knitted this cap for a friend's baby.  The baby's grandmother is holding her.

                                                      They are both so photogenic!

Looking down on Tana from the Catholic cathedral near the top of the hill

Looks like a precarious perch

I will probably have to leave this Noah's ark behind...pretty bulky to pack