Thanksgiving

We celebrated Thanksgiving a bit early this year. This past Sunday, one of the girls in the ward (American) got together a big Thanskgiving dinner for everyone. There were probably about 30 people there in a really tiny flat. But food wasn't lacking. There was a good amount of leftovers. She cooked 2 turkeys, one really big one and one sorta small. She even had me carve them. So one day I've actually got to learn how to do it properly. But despite the lack of technique we all got some good meat off of those birds. And there were like 6 different desserts - half of which were pumpking pies. I didn't know that pumpkin pie was an American dish. No one from other countries seemed to know what it was, and they were surprised to hear it was sweet. It got good reviews though. When all the food was ready, this girl got everyone's attention and explained the whole purpose and history of Thanksgiving for the sake of all the non-Americans. She was explaining that the early Americans were celebrating a bountiful harvest, at which point one of the English girls piped in with a smirk, "I believe it was the English who were over there." Ha... good point. So yeah, Thanksgiving was a lot of fun, even halfway across the world. And this Saturday morning we're all going to play in the Turkey Bowl that I'm organizing. And later that night I'll watch as Alabama crushes Auburn. :)