Our Thanksgiving started out like any other...except only our foreigner friends knew we were celebrating anything at all. My doorman told us "Congratulations on your holiday" after explaining to him what today was. About 4 hours of our day was spent getting to and from our destination. We took a train to be with some friends about an hour way but it was raining and hard to get a taxi once we got there. Here are our wet bags of food we are carrying to the party.
There were about 40 Americans celebrating at this one small house. Our side dish we brought was (Hatch) green chili cream cheese corn (woot woot NM) and a six layer cookie bar desert. (Almost) Everything was so delicious. My favorite thing was the sweet potato casserole. The only thing we were missing was pumpkin pie (really difficult to make here). But that's okay maybe at Christmas.
Here we our at about 9:30 p.m. on the train back to our city. We spent Saturday decorating our house. I love to have my house decorated b/c there is not many places that feel christmasy here. My version of Thanksgiving shopping weekend was a little different, but no less intense. There was a bizarre with all the embassies from around the world selling stuff at tables from their countries. After the King's wife made her way down the red carpet (I was in the front, 15 feet from her!) and looked around there was mad dash and stampede of hundreds of people to get in. Things I bought at the USA table include a Butterfinger and Reese's Peanut Butter cup.
Putting the final touches on our tree.
Hanging our chile lights, I am going to take these home with me so each year I hang them it will remind me of our three Christmas' here.
The finished product. I am really pleased how the decorations turned out this year. We did our outside door too. I love the holiday season! (it also includes my birthday and anniversary so that helps :)
6 comments:
Are those chili pepper lights? Holla New Mexico! The decorations look great. Happy Holidays!
Thanks, those are chili lights and the tree skirt is chili's too! represent!
Your place looks great! You've inspired me - i think we will decorate tonight. were going 2 do it last friday, but we were busy typhoon-proofing the house. just like in the States, huh? :) there may actually b another typhoon enroute so mayb we will wait a few more days 2 decorate in case we flood...
Looks great ya'll! Hope you have a lot of fun enjoying the holiday and decorations! Nat and I have started decorating our place too! (for the first time...AWWW)
Later,
Paul
Muy festivo!! Makes me want to sing 'deck the halls' and do a little flamenco dance in your living room. :) Hope things are going well...here comes 4 years for you two! WOOOHOO!
Love ya! Jo
Man it'd been a few weeks since I last checked and you guys have so many great posts. I can't believe you saw the King's wife- was she as beautiful in person? What was she wearing? Did she have security guards? I like your Christmas decorations too- just like my last post. And Barcelona looks like it was beautiful- so nice to get to travel, right? Oh and I want to remember to talk to you about your carpet- that's the kind I like (though I'd have to work on John...) Love you guys- Caitlin
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