Happy Thanksgiving!

Hi everybody!

Yesterday Rachael and I hosted a Thanksgiving bash for Rachael's sister Jenny, her brother-in-law James, and some friends of mine from Pittsburgh named Markos and Lissa who live in Sydney with their little girl.  I was in charge of preparing the turkey, which was a fun challenge.  I took a few pictures of the process.

That was the turkey before cooking. Here was the turkey post-cooking.  (Don't ask why it's in a frying pan.)

And here was our dining area:

Rachael, Jenny and James helped with the side dishes:

Here you can see Jenny, James, Markos, Lissa, and their daughter Irene during the distribution of Thanksgiving foodstuffs.

Irene really liked our hat collection, but I didn't get any pictures of her playing with them.

Rachael lit some candles in the middle of the table:

That jug you can see on the table had some egg nog that I improvised by mixing a carton of what they call custard here with some sugar water.  It was a pretty good imitation of real fake egg nog from the States, but a bit thicker and a bit too sweet, although Rachael suggests that maybe it only seemed that way to me because I'm losing my American sweet tooth.


Last but not least, we had a pumpkin pie that Rachael made, with some whipped cream from Jenny.

Hope Thanksgiving has been going well back in the heartland.  All the best from the Antipodes.