Friday, November 25, 2011

Thanksgiving

The effort needed to prepare food required that we eat food...
Let's pretend it hasn't been months since I updated my blog and move right into current happenings. I had a lovely low-key Thanksgiving with Henry and friends yesterday. Henry was the main chef, for which I was very grateful. I don't bring much by the way of cooking into the Traditional Thanksgiving meal line-up, but I make up for that with good food shopping skills. I earned the award for best purchased contribution, with an amazing spinach dip.



Such intense competition

We spent the afternoon playing some old school Nintendo games including Mario cart and Street Fighter.
Celebrity sighting in the kitchen.












Turkey Time.
We also broke out a new game called "Power Grid", a purchased inspired by our resident power engineer who looks suspiciously like the engineer on the cover of the game.












The turkey was excellent, although the vegetarian in the group had to take 15 minutes after the carving of the bird before she could eat anything. 
Keeping the lights on in Berlin.










We spent the rest of the evening trying to supply electricity to Germany. A lovely day in all. Right now I'm thankful that I won't see my car's license plates any more when I look at my blog.