Thanksgiving

I have been giving thanks all week through my status updates in Facebook. Here they are:

Monday - is thankful for the wonderful experiences, staff and students I am working with this year.

Tuesday - I am thankful for my cousins. Cousins are the 1st friends of your life. When you grow up, they are still your friends. Cousins are there as childhood friends, and they are there when get older as forever friends... No one will ever understand your CRAZY FAMILY like your cousins. Repost this if you have cousins that are awesome!

Wednesday - is thankful for her brothers and father and surrogate moms and sisters. :) Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving day tomorrow. Eat some turkey for me!

So as you can see from Wed, there was no plan to have any turkey dinner at all. At lunch yesterday (I wrote this originally on Friday), I was very sad that for the first time in 38 years I would not be celebrating Thanksgiving with a special meal... after lunch when Marta came back from her appt, she was also feeling sad about this lack of special dinner so we decided to search up a place to go here in Stockholm. After a bit of internet searching, I decided that an American restaurant here might be the best way to find a spot having a special menu for the night. I had success as we found a place called the Mississippi Inn which was serving a special Thanksgiving Day menu.

We invited along one of our YBC friends, Kari, to share our traditions with him. The meal began with Tuna Cerviche as an appetizer and then continued with typical fare of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce (not quite like home), sweet potatoes and green beans followed by a really yummy dessert. No pumpkin pie, but the meal overall made me very happy!

We then took a snowy walk home from the restaurant to walk off our meal. I came home a bit cold, but happy!