I just finished Skyping with my family back home - they made my mouth start watering when they started talking about carving the turkey and getting the mashed potatoes out of the oven, and I heard the wine glasses clinking. But I had my own little sort of Thanksgiving celebration tonight. With a fellow Canadian from my compound, we joined two other Canadians from a different organization (plus an American - but she's from Minnesota, which is practically Canada!) to have a nice dinner of roasted chicken, mashed potatoes and corn.
I had even left the office about 30 minutes early today and made a pumpkin pie! I must admit, I'm happy to be able to use that last bit of pumpkin from my freezer (seriously, it's like the pumpkin that almost never ended - still not ended as I have a few pieces of pumpkin cake and a whole container of pumpkin soup left in the freezer!). The pie actually turned out really well! I was quite pleased with the results, and so was everyone else. They were all pretty amazed that I baked a pie from scratch, using pumpkin that didn't come from a can. I have to admit, I'm pretty amazed about it myself.
I even stopped at the ice cream shop on my way from the immigration office today and got a little container of ice cream, so we had some vanilla/chocolate twist soft serve on top of the pie. Not quite as authentic as whipped cream, but we're flexible :)
So I had a nice Thanksgiving celebration, even though I'm far from home again.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! May you all find countless things to be thankful for today!
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