Two Thanksgiving Meals
Okay, here’s my last entry that I talked about, so I’ll be almost caught up. If people remember last year, all I had for Thanksgiving was a brownie. Some of the people, including Ruth, said I had to do something for Thanksgiving, so we went to G&D’s and I got a brownie, which was a good brownie but not Thanksgiving. This year, Ashley made a wonderful turkey (her first time too), although we did find the bag of giblets after it was cooked. Oops! Ashley also made stuffing and macaroni and cheese. And I cut the turkey, which the knife wasn’t very good, so it didn’t cut too well, and I had no idea what I was doing, but nobody cared what it looked like. I also made lumpy mashed potatoes (we didn’t have a mixer) and sort of runny gravy, because it didn’t thicken like it was supposed to, but everyone said it was good. Katy brought good bread and some cranberry sauce, which I think I was the only one who had had it before and liked it. Ula and Celia brought yummy desserts, which we were almost too full to eat by the end, but somehow we managed. And Yihlyn brought wine. It was a great meal with great company. Here’s a picture of my plate.
And there are more pictures on my flickr under the Thanksgiving tag. After dinner, we watched Legally Blonde. We had wanted to watch a Christmas movie, but nobody had anything, so Yihlyn brought Legally Blonde. It was fun, nice to watch some mindless TV. Then we all walked back to college together, leaving Katy and Ashley, after we had all washed dishes and cleaned up, so Ashley didn’t have a mess. It was a really nice Thanksgiving.
So then Saturday, the MCR had their Thanksgiving dinner that I was invited to and I brought Ashley as my guest. I went to an hour of the rowing dinner first because it was that night too. They went to an Indian food restaurant and I tried a little bit of Katy’s, but I didn’t want to pay and wanted to save my appetite, so I didn’t eat much. Then all the girls got pictures in our T-shirts that we made, although our first “E” didn’t have her T-shirt, so she just stood in her place and you have to imagine the E. So then I left before all the “fining” where they fine people for mistakes they’ve made throughout the term, which means you have to drink wine or a drink each time you’re fined. When I came back from the Thanksgiving meal, I have to say I wasn’t disappointed I missed that part.
So Ashley and I started walking to the MCR place, which ended up being further away than we thought, and I wasn’t even completely sure of the number. But we found it. And it was really nice. Ashley and I actually didn’t end up sitting next to each other for most of the night. We sat with Sarah and a woman from China who is here getting her MBA during dinner, but before and after, for dessert, I ended up talking to Jacob, a G-town graduate who is here working on a Masters in Theology, and his girlfriend Elsa, who is a second-year, and Matt, who I lived with last year and is also an American grad student, but at Nuffield with connections to Regent’s, and Brad and Clark, both American grad students. It was a fun night. I really like hanging out with the MCR people. I feel like I fit in a little better there, but I’m still shy around them too. It’s hard for me to get out of my shell. The dinner was really good. They had sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie, both things we didn’t have at our meal. But Ashley and I decided that the food we did have was better in comparison. Haha. But both meals were wonderful, and I was very full by the end. Good company and good food. That’s what Thanksgiving is all about, right? Oh, and being thankful to have it!