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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Thanksgiving plus
Well, I am frustrated as my computer has a trojan and I have some, but not all of my pictures. I was going to write a blog with pictures of our Thanksgiving celebration. Now, I will tell you about it.
Our colleague, Renee, and I made Thanksgiving for 40 people on Thanksgiving day. This was complicated by the fact that we live 45 minutes away and the food, obviously would be cold by the time we got it to Klub. So, we loaded the car with 2 apple pies, 1 apple crisp, 3 pumpkin pies, 20 kg of potatoes to make mashed potatoes, fixings to stuffing, one cooked, sliced turkey, one cooked turkey, hot when it was put in the car!, cranberry sauce, pickles, serving bowls, spoons, plates, pans to cook the food in, frozen green beans and bacon to cook for in the beans and all the spices required to finish/cook the food.
We drove to Vlasim, dropped off what we could leave in the Klub room and drove to our colleagues' apartment in town. All of this involved many trips up and down from the 2nd floor of the klub building to the 3rd floor of the apartment building. We were tired before we even began in Vlasim!
The stove top was smaller than mine here is and didn't heat as quickly/efficiently as mine does, and the oven was just a bit smaller than mine...so the turkey didn't fit in it! :( The stuffing and other things did fit and heated up fine.
After working 3 hours more, we were ready to transport all the hot food to the Klub building. Thankfully, the Berankovi and Tom and the kids were there to help carry it up the stairs and set it in the club room across the hall from Klub Rachel.
I must say that I experienced my first Thanksgiving where I served from my knees as we used the benches from the hall to serve off of as the tables and chairs were all in our Klub room!
Rachel had prepared, in Czech, a powerpoint with pictures and words describing the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. Then, on to the eating.
Our friends were amazed at all the food and all tried a bit of everything. The kids found out that they actually liked cranberries! Some adults found that they like turkey! Others didn't. All enjoyed trying the stuffing and beans . Even though they can be purchased here now, they aren't something "traditionally" Czech so many people had never had them before.
We were happy to send many leftovers (planned) home with them so they would have at least one more good meal!
Friday, we were happy to celebrate Thanksgiving here at home with two of our colleagues. We even ran the first ever Becker Turkey Trot. We ran it last year at the YMCA in Indiana. So, we borrowed the idea and did a 5k run/walk here! What a great time we had! Amy even participated in the "real" Turkey Trot in Indiana again. We did that before eating here. It made us even more hungry and ready to eat! :)
We are now gearing up for Christmas, as I am sure you all are doing as well. There are only 12 more days until Amy lands here! We are SO excited and take another paper off of our paper chain every morning to count down the days.
I hope to have a repaired computer soon, although there seem to be other issues than just the trojan. Who knows, maybe we will be down to one computer again?! In the meantime, God bless and keep in touch!
Our colleague, Renee, and I made Thanksgiving for 40 people on Thanksgiving day. This was complicated by the fact that we live 45 minutes away and the food, obviously would be cold by the time we got it to Klub. So, we loaded the car with 2 apple pies, 1 apple crisp, 3 pumpkin pies, 20 kg of potatoes to make mashed potatoes, fixings to stuffing, one cooked, sliced turkey, one cooked turkey, hot when it was put in the car!, cranberry sauce, pickles, serving bowls, spoons, plates, pans to cook the food in, frozen green beans and bacon to cook for in the beans and all the spices required to finish/cook the food.
We drove to Vlasim, dropped off what we could leave in the Klub room and drove to our colleagues' apartment in town. All of this involved many trips up and down from the 2nd floor of the klub building to the 3rd floor of the apartment building. We were tired before we even began in Vlasim!
The stove top was smaller than mine here is and didn't heat as quickly/efficiently as mine does, and the oven was just a bit smaller than mine...so the turkey didn't fit in it! :( The stuffing and other things did fit and heated up fine.
After working 3 hours more, we were ready to transport all the hot food to the Klub building. Thankfully, the Berankovi and Tom and the kids were there to help carry it up the stairs and set it in the club room across the hall from Klub Rachel.
I must say that I experienced my first Thanksgiving where I served from my knees as we used the benches from the hall to serve off of as the tables and chairs were all in our Klub room!
Rachel had prepared, in Czech, a powerpoint with pictures and words describing the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. Then, on to the eating.
Our friends were amazed at all the food and all tried a bit of everything. The kids found out that they actually liked cranberries! Some adults found that they like turkey! Others didn't. All enjoyed trying the stuffing and beans . Even though they can be purchased here now, they aren't something "traditionally" Czech so many people had never had them before.
We were happy to send many leftovers (planned) home with them so they would have at least one more good meal!
Friday, we were happy to celebrate Thanksgiving here at home with two of our colleagues. We even ran the first ever Becker Turkey Trot. We ran it last year at the YMCA in Indiana. So, we borrowed the idea and did a 5k run/walk here! What a great time we had! Amy even participated in the "real" Turkey Trot in Indiana again. We did that before eating here. It made us even more hungry and ready to eat! :)
We are now gearing up for Christmas, as I am sure you all are doing as well. There are only 12 more days until Amy lands here! We are SO excited and take another paper off of our paper chain every morning to count down the days.
I hope to have a repaired computer soon, although there seem to be other issues than just the trojan. Who knows, maybe we will be down to one computer again?! In the meantime, God bless and keep in touch!
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