Thanksgiving

Australians don't celebrate Thanksgiving. So there was no Thursday and Friday off of work and school and no "black Friday" either. Since I don't count Halloween as a holiday (the kids may not agree), I am considering this our first holiday away from home. Thanksgiving is not as big of a deal to kids, so I think they were somewhat oblivious to what was going on. I, on the other hand really missed all my family and all the activity of this "pre-Christmas" weekend. I tried to go Christmas shopping, but it just wasn't the same.

The funny thing is that they don't sell whole turkeys in the grocery store, so I had to order one from the butcher (he had 3 other orders for the same day). Another side note is that the grocery stores have produce, etc. but not a very big selection. So you get most of your groceries at the grocery store, but your fruit at the fruit market, your meat at the butcher and your bread at the bakery. Anyway, I went to pick up the turkey on Friday. I about died when he told me I owed him 100 dollars! I ordered 13 kg - oops that's 26 pounds!

On Saturday we had our turkey dinner. I sure missed my double ovens and my crockpot! We had turkey (and lots of it), mashed potatoes, stuffing, asparagus, and sweet potatoes. No pumpkin pie (no cans of pumpkin). Instead, we had a froze Sara Lee apple crunch pie - even Brody liked it!