Happy Thanksgiving!

I will be sharing a traditional dinner of stuffed shells with my mom for this festive occasion. It was fun to explain to the people at work all the turkey-day holiday traditions though. The sad part is, there are several ex-pat-Americans ("ex-patriated", I mean) here and I mentioned Thanksgiving to them and they had completely forgetten. Its such a good holiday, all about gorging on food and EVERYONE in America celebrates it and they just went and gave it up :).

My mom arrived safe and sound today. She had a surprising amount of energy for someone who has spent the last 18 hours traveling here, changing time zones into Dallas and then here. But she made it.

I learned that my aunts have decided to DEEP FRY our turkey this year. I take back all those horrible things I said to the southerners (namely Eddie and Scott) about how no one in their right mind (I mean no Yankee) would ever consider such a hideous, unhealthy thing. But, apparently, they have a huge vat of oil that they will dip the poor turkey into and it will emerge as a fully fried bird. As the Swiss would say: "That's not normal!"