Thanksgiving

If you know me then you know that Thanksgiving Day ranks up there as high as Christmas for me. Food, family, food, naps, sweatpants, relaxation and did I mention food? I was a little worried that my first holiday in Korea away from home would take a major toll on me. Korea’s thanksgiving, Chuseok, has already passed so the nice thing was that I didn’t have to be reminded of the American holiday coming up that I would be missing away from home for the first time in 22 years. On Thanksgiving Day here I got to make paper plate turkey with the kids. It was fun to teach them about eating turkey, stuffing and how American Thanksgiving traditions usually consisted of football and watching the parade on TV. Turkey here is rare here in Korea unless you want to pay a pretty penny for it. I was already going to deal with the fact that my Thanksgiving dinner would consist of rice and kimchi. Fortunately, we had a potluck dinner and had a friend that was able to pick a thanksgiving set from the military base for a whopping 130 U.S. dollars. We were able to divide the cost between about 10 people or so. The set had one cooked turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy, vegetables and pumpkin pie. Then we also had the sides everyone else brought which turned out to be an impressive Thanksgiving meal in Korea. I missed out on eating in my sweatpants, taking a nap, being with the family, and having leftovers for a week, but all in all I would say it was still a good Thanksgiving!

It was really expensive to buy whipped cream for the pumpkin pie so we thought maybe we could make our own...bad idea. We were stirring for litterally an hour and it never turned into whipped cream. Can't say we didn't try!

Sorry I haven't blogging as much as I like, but I will try to keep everyone up to date more.

Miss and love you all!