We didn't do anything special on Thanksgiving day since no one had the day off, but we did celebrate. The Saturday before the holiday, we celebrated with some friends from church. We had authentic food (turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes) and played some games. It was nice just to hang out and share our American traditions with others. We also had a meal the Saturday after Thanksgiving with the other American families that moved over here with us. We all combined our carefully hoarded American goods and put together a delicious Thanksgiving meal. We even had canned cranberry and green bean casserole! It was a lot of fun and since I'd spent all day in the kitchen, felt like the real thing. Tom even listened to the GT vs UGA game over the internet that night to fulfill the football requirement to the weekend.
Christmas -
While we will be in the States for most of December, we have done a little celebrating over here. We decorated our house, I made Christmas cookies yesterday with some friends, and earlier this week we put up a Christmas tree. I had resisted the idea, but finally relented and we got one on Wednesday - with just two weeks left in the country. It was a challenge to even find a tree this early in Switzerland! We went a few places and eventually asked at one place (in French!) and finally managed to bring home a short, squat tree barely taller than me. It was worth it though to pull out all our ornaments and relive the memories. The first official date that Tom and I went on was to dinner and then putting up a Christmas tree together and it has since become our tradition. This is our 6th tree together! While it doesn't quite look like what we're used to, it fulfilled its purpose. Anyone want a tree for December 11?
We had to raise it up on something so it didn't look so small. The cats like to bat at the ornaments and hid under the cloth covering the stand.
The Burgesses came over and helped us decorate our tree since they won't have one here. Kacey and are are reindeer - aren't we cute?
Cambelle even got into the spirit of things!
3 comments:
cute tree!! You did a great job!!!!
Cant wait to see you. Hey- I am having a pottery party on Dec 14, maybe you can come????????????
Your tree looks nice! I'm looking forward to having a peppermint mocha with you!
Hahaha :) I love the tree - glad you ended up getting one :) Looking forward to seeing you both soon!!!
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