Our Thanksgiving

I am so stuffed full of turkey and pumpkin pie that I can hardly function...so tonight, I probably won't. Just lay on the couch/bed and watch "Elf"....I think that's the plan for tonight. :) It was a great day! First let me tell you something fun about yesterday!

So, our friend from Turkey, "Tuba" came over yesterday. Tuba has a roommate in her dormroom who is from the States! They planned to make a small Thanksgiving dinner yesterday and Tuba wanted to suprise her roommate with a homemade pumpkin roll! Tuba had come to our Thanksgiving English Club last week and LOVED the pumpkin roll, so she asked us afterwards if she could come over this week and make one for her American roommate since she loved pumpkin and was missing home. So, Tuba came over yesterday and we helped her make a pumpkin roll for her roommate. She just sent me an email and said that her roomie was suprised to tears! :) We were very excited that we could help her out. :) We also had a chance to share with her about what we do here and a bit about our faith...we were waiting for the cake to cool ;) Here's Tuba and Scott preparing the icing for the cake...

Yesterday was a pretty full day...classes at 8am, baking from 10:00-12:30, class again until 3:00 and my mind is kind of a blank after that...I don't really remember what we did. :) OH! No, we talked to our families over Skype....while they were eating Thanksgiving dinners...talk about not fair! :P

So, TODAY was OUR day to have Thanksgiving! So, we got up this morning around 8:00 and headed out to our new mall with other American missionary friends, Lauren & Jennifer for some good 'old "Day After Thanksgiving" shopping! However, it wasn't quite as exciting as I'm sure it was for you all who ventured out at 4:30 this morning to Best Buy or Wally-World. BUT for the sake of tradition...it was a lot of fun and we did have lunch at BURGER-KING!! YAY! Our first Burger King in Poland! (That we know of) And it was pretty dern good! After our shopping spree (well not really shopping spree...we bought things to cook for dinner) we came back to our flat and cooked up a storm!

We made turkey & HOMEMADE stuffing...that's right...stuffing from scratch...it was pretty yummy if I may say so myself. We made mashed potatoes, and a pumpkin roll, Lauren made brown-sugared carrots, and Jenn brought some pumpkin pie and corn souffle! To top it off we had hot apple cider. Again, for the sake of tradition we stuffed ourselves silly until we could hardly move...laid around for a while, and then ate some more dessert. :) (All while watching the

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!)

So, after dinner & dessert we watched "Miracle on 34th Street" and "It's Christmas Charlie Brown!" while putting up Christmas decorations. :)

To be away from friends and family hasn't been the easiest thing...but the Lord has definitely brought us comfort in the little things we can get excited about over here. Spending time with friends who've just sort of become our "family." Today was a blessing...talking with family over Skype, spending this holiday with friends who are in the same boat as we are, shopping, a great meal, good fellowship, and the Christmas story told byLinus....considering the obvious....I'd say it was a pretty good Thanksgiving and we definitely have MUCH to be thankful for!

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