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| I swear I wasn't the only one drinking this night!!!!! |
Thanksgiving is a time of year when you get together with your family and overindulge in food, booze, and football...it's a wonderful holiday. The past 8 years I've lived in Colorado, away from my family and a lot of my close friends. It's hard to be away from friends and family to begin with, holidays are especially difficult. Every year for the last 8 years I would spend this day with my Colorado family and truly feel thankful for the people I am lucky enough to have in my life. Being away from everyone this Thursday was the first time I've felt a bit homesick, probably the first time in my life I've felt this way to this extent. I've been fortunate enough to travel a lot in my life, sometimes for an extended period of time, somehow I've always managed to be home for the holidays (whether home be Chicago or Colorado). Even the time Per and I lived in Ireland, one of the deciding factors in deciding when to leave was being home for Thanksgiving (granted, this was mostly Per....I'm just trying to make a point here). So this is a shout out to all my friends and family back home! I miss you and I love you (almost all of you...just kidding, all of you)!
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| Working hard! |
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| Also working hard! |
Now, for my unfortunate friends that I have adopted as my Korean family...you are all so screwed! Over Thanksgiving weekend 9 of us rented a house is Gangnam, Seoul Korea. Prior to coming to Korea my only experience with Gangnam was the PSY song, which I studied daily so that I could have my dance routine down for the clubs. I feel pretty confident saying we celebrated Thanksgiving better than any Korean in Seoul last weekend (for the record...we were most likely the only one's celebrating Thanksgiving). We went potluck style, which was perfect given the diversity of our group and for the ethnic spread we were about to endure. Naturally I bought a pie, and helped mash the potatoes...ok lets be honest here...I mashed every freaking
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| This is the look you get if you call Jonah, Jordan! |
potato in that house!
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| Smile ladies...and Jordan! |
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| David mentally preparing |
Here's the spread (a little different than what I'm used to):
Spring rolls
Egg rolls
Mashed potatoes (maybe the best ever...perfectly microwaved and perfectly mashed)
Stuffing
Waldorf salad
Mac'n cheese
Roasted chicken (sorry no turkey here...kind of a bummer)
Pasta salad
Banana bread
Rice (of course)
Stir fry
Pumpkin pie
Apple pie
Cheesecake
2 bottles of wine ($75 each thanks to David and I)
Soju, Soju, Soju, Soju, Soju
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| Pie and chopsticks |
Everybody did an amazing job cooking and bringing this all together. Since I'm a terrible cook I thought it would be a good idea to help go get all the food at Home Plus...since I'm terrible at directions this mission took 3.5 hours . Sorry about that gang : )
It was a weekend that we all deserved and I have a feeling we all needed. I'm proud to say we even hosted the first Thanksgiving for one of our friends! Sara, now you know what it's like to eat like an American!
Thanks everyone for an amazing Friendsgiving and for being amazing people!
Let the record show, the deposit on the house was not returned to us...
