Thanksgiving

This year, being in NZ where they don't celebrate Thanksgiving was strange. I had to use some of my annual leave to get the day off for starters. The other weird thing about it was having it on a Friday, which meant it was truly Thanksgiving in America. The entire day I had the urge to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone but I controlled my excitement. It was Amanda and mines first year actually being in charge of the dinner, SCARY! We did several grocery trips always seeming to forget one thing or another. Amanda even had to call around to different grocery stores to see who had the biggest turkeys since it's not really a big time of year for them. It was also tricky being in NZ because they didn't have all of the ingredients we needed but we made do. Mom sent us Thanksgiving decorations which definitely help to set the tone. Brigid came down from Auckland and Lisa came up from Christchurch and we put them to work in the kitchen. We had another friend in charge of the pumpkin pies and they were superb!We hosted 15 people for dinner and it was a great success.  It was really nice sharing our thanksgiving tradition with fellow kiwi mates who have never experienced it.