Imagine a beer-loving former Marine turned commercial deep-sea diver, his Lebanese wife, her crutch-wielding polio-afflicted bearded brother, a paint/steel-selling young Indian businessman, and a weight-lifting tattooed Puerto Rican Marine. Ok, have that square in your mind? Well then throw Jillian and I in the mix, some homemade Lebanese mezze, many bottles of wine, and you get our Christmas Eve dinner….in the port city/town of Tema.... Ghana … Surreal? Can’t quite wrap your mind around that? Well try picturing a bespectacled American political chief, his nose-ringed Bangladeshi wife, a large red-head Brit – who builds rural dental clinics – and his family, an ice-cream loving large fluffy white dog named Chiquitin, four Sri Lankans and a young blonde from Seattle. Now, once again, throw Jillian and I in the mix, along with some turkey, bread sauce, samosas, double-baked potatoes, stuffing, Christmas pudding, key-lime pie, pumpkin pie, and champagne. And presto! That was our Christmas...
