I got off of work for Thursday and Friday, so my Thanksgiving started out right- no work! I sent out a Facebook message to organize the day at the beginning of the week. I told people where we were all eating and when, asking them if they wanted to join, and gave a list of what people were already bringing and ideas for what they could potentially bring. I made broccoli casserole, which turned out very well considering I had to use English ingredients, including something called salad cream instead of miracle whip. There were 10 of us total and everyone brought something different and delicious. Instead of turkey, we had chicken, but other than that we had all the traditional Thanksgiving foods.
This being our first Thanksgiving on our own, we didn't know how much to cook and ended up having lots of leftovers, which no one was sad about, and which I ate the next day for lunch and dinner. Since I was going away on Saturday for the weekend, I froze some of the broccoli casserole I made so that I would have some when I got back on Monday, very clever of me considering everything was gone when I came back- the only thing left was salad. It was a very successful day and I'm glad I got to skype the family and see them via the internet.
We were all thankful that even though we couldn't be home for Thanksgiving, at least we got to spend it the right way (despite most of them having to go to work that day) with a great group of friends.
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