Thanksgiving and such.

Well this past weekend we have had lots of Thanksgiving fun! On the actual day of Thanksgiving, Søren and I had our friends Jette and Carl over for a mini-Thanksgiving feast! We made stuffing and turkey breast (we actually cut a slit in the turkey breast and stuffed it with the stuffing just to see if it worked!) mashed potatoes, green beans and of course pumpkin pie for dessert! The interesting part about the pumpkin pie was that I made it from a real pumpkin. After searching high and low throughout Denmark I could not find pumpkin in a can anywhere, so it was the only choice left. It was quite a bit of work, but it turned out really great, and our friends liked it even though they were a little skeptical at first. After the feast we sat and watched some good old Thanksgiving Day Football! It was an enjoyable Thanksgiving, even if we did have to go to work!
The Pumpkin Pie process

1) Cut and gut the pumpkin


2) Steam the pumpkin pieces


3)Mix it with a lot of stuff, make a crust and pour the pumkin into the pie! Cook for an hour and...

A pumpkin pie from scratch!

Our feast!

Eating pie and watching Football!


The weekend only went up from there. Friday night we went to Esbjerg, where Søren is from and where his Mom lives now. We had an after party for the Show I was in and Søren was able to spend time with his Mom. I had a wonderful time seeing the Show friends again. Its always fun to be together with theater people! They think of the craziest things! Someone wrote an 8 page song about all the funny stuff that had happened during the show. It was really fun!

Then Saturday we drove up to Aalborg (3 hours north in Jutland) for Thanksgiving round 2! Our friends Jim and Maria live there and they are also a Dane/American couple like us. Our other friend Jenny who is also from the US came too so that we could celebrate Thanksgiving, American style!

Before the feast could begin we we're asked to have an interview for the newspaper of the Christian Organization Jenny and Jim work for. The four of us, Jim, Jenny, Søren and I were all on Watermark together and have decided to move to Denmark so this reporter asked if he could interview us for an article. We were asked questions about why we moved to Denmark, what we do and what we think of living in Denmark. It was fun and kind of exciting. The reporter also thought that it was interesting that we were celebrating Thanksgiving together and took some funny pictures of us!



Later that night 3 more Americans came over to enjoy the Thanksgiving feast. Jim and Maria had met them in Aalborg and invited them, knowing that it is weird not celebrating Thanksgiving as an American! It was so fun, we had never met them before but we had our country in common so it was easy! It was a great meal and yet again another great Thanksgiving!

Well now that Thanksgiving is officially over I guess it is time to decorate for Christmas. Søren and I used Sunday evening to set up the few Christmas decorations we have. It was really fun and exciting to get into the Christmas mood! We just need some snow now!!!





It just isn't Christmas without a snow village!



Glædelig Jul!
(Merry Christmas)