Thanksgiving in St. Kitts

Last Thursday Josh and I celebrated our first Thanksgiving in St. Kitts.  We attend a small student lead church service on Sunday morning called Caribbean Christian Fellowship, and every Thanksgiving they do a huge potluck for Thanksgiving.  There was a sign up sheet sent out and decided I was going to make sweet potato casserole and fudge pies.  I had been craving sweet potato casserole at the time the sign up sheet went out so I thought that it was a great idea for me to make it, plus Josh loves it!!  Oh boy was I ever wrong about it being a great idea.  It was the most stressful, nerve racking thing I could of picked.  First of all after I got to thinking about it, I realized that I had NEVER seen sweet potatoes in the grocery store and I was going to need to feed a HUNDRED people.  Now I knew that I could not actually feed that many people, but the southern girl in me made me feel the need to at least give it my best effort because I could not stand the thought of not taking enough for everyone.  Well the weekend leading in to the week of Thanksgiving I found sweet potatoes, and I could kick myself for not taking a picture of them.  Some of them where as big as cantaloupes!!!  They are different from the ones at home, but tasted the same.  So the Wednesday before Thanksgiving a peeled and cooked my sweet potatoes, which took forever as I only have one medium size pot!!!  And on Thursday morning I put the marshmallows on top of one of the casseroles and made the nut topping for the other casserole, which is Josh's favorite.  All in all they turned out great.  I however cannot say the same for my fudge pies.  I followed my mom's recipe exactly as it said, not opening the oven door until they had cooked for 45 minutes.  But the pies never set up much to my disappointment.  Oh well at least the sweet potato casserole was good and there was plenty to go around!!  Here are some pictures from the night.  Regrettably I forgot to get a picture of all the food before, so you will only get to see the aftermath.