Last week was filled with 'Gobble Gobble', or Thanksgiving as it is more commonly known, my favorite holiday of all time!! I don't really remember what all happened last week, although that does seem to happen quite often. But I do remember what happened on part of Wednesday and Thursday, so that is all that is important! What I remember of Wednesday was just the Family Dinner. It was Catherine's turn to cook and we had a delicious Breakfast for dinner. It consisted of Pancakes, sausage links, fresh fruit, and a fruit sauce with Canadian Syrup. The best syrup that I have ever had in my whole entire life!
Thanksgiving Day in England, not good. First of all I HAD to go to class, what a crap situation that was. But I guess that was the only crap part of the day, after that it was all better :) When class was over I went back home and started to get thing ready for later that day when we would be cooking our Turkey, Jedodiah, make stuffing, and gravy. Thankfully I made the homemade rolls the day before, otherwise that would have been way to much stuff needing the ovens attention. Anyway, since it was Thanksgiving and I was upstairs working on a little homework/watching a movie, while I was doing that the rents Skyped me. It was nice to talk to them for a while. However I had things to do so I had to get going on that, aka. get turkey ready. We cut up the herbs and garlic and layered it on top of him, then added some butter and stuffed the turkey with some of the stuffing. Gently we placed him in the oven for about 3.5-4 hours and watched our little one slowly die a painful death. That is after I chopped part of his neck off so that it would fit in the pan. Sorry. :D
Quite creative that one.
The next day came and I was headed off to London after my class. I was going down to visit Dacia and James for the weekend. That night we went out to Pizza Hut (US is WAY better than what they have here! They like to put chicken on everything, and even have some corn on their pizza. Weird) But after our pizza was ate and packed up in our doggy bag we went out to this Rock and Roll bar where we just chilled for a bit. When our drinks were finished we headed home to just relax, we were going to have a big day on Saturday. When Saturday came we had to get up at 6:15 so that we could be on the road by 7:15. Dacia and I were going to Birlington to The Great Food Show, where we were meeting up with James's Mom, Aunt & 3 cousins. With Dacia's impeccable driving skills it only took us 1.5 hours, and man did it go fast. :) After we had arrived and met everyone we went in to see the Cook off.
At the Great Food Show, The Cookoff US vs UK
Unfortunately the guy from the US lost, but he did do a full thanksgiving meal in 20 minutes! And the judges seem to like his more than the other guys, but they still didn't choose him. :(
When the show was over we split up into smaller groups and started walking around to see what was all there. Now this was no easy task let me tell you. First of all we did not come as prepared as everyone else (I prefer it that way), lets just say these people were ready to buy the whole place. They would bring backpacks to hold the wine that they bought, these little push cart things, suitcases etc. And they were not fun to walk around and were constantly in the way. However, I did have fun other than the load of people. After about 5 hours we headed back home to rest for a few hours before we left to Chiswick to a comedy club.
One of James work friends was having a birthday party so we went there to celebrate.The first comedian was absolutely horrendous, he was very unique in his jokes and how he presented them, but they were not funny. Thankfully the 2nd and 3rd comedian were much better, they were hilarious! When the show was over we walked back into the bar and had ourselves a few more drinks. :)
Sunday morning came and we started on our Thanksgiving Feast. Peeling Potatoes, cutting fruit, making rolls, getting spices ready etc. Finally it was time to open the turkey and rub the butter mixture all over and stuff it with onions, garlic and herbs. :)
The dinner was delicious and am seriously going to have to make that cranberry sauce sometime soon, because it is all I have on my mind! :p After we were stuffed we just quietly sat on the couch and watched a soccer and tennis match, both of which I do not understand. Ohh well, I just typed a little bit more of my paper. Finally we called it a night and went to bed, I was going to be leaving early in the morning so I had to make sure all of my things were packed and ready to go.
The next morning I got up and we headed for the train station. Note to self and others, never travel after 8 til like 9:30.... It gets a little crowded and if you are some of the first ones on it is hard to get off at your stop. But thankfully I managed to make it to Kings Cross with time to spare and made it home fine without any delays! Whew! :) But I am tired and ready for bed... So until next time
Goodnight!
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