Thanksgiving

The Strobels hosted our first Thanksgiving dinner. It was quite the event. Here is a pic of me doing some carving.

Here, Kelli and Kim try to rig up a way to keep the turkey from falling open while cooking. The chosen method was toothpicks.

We had about 13 people for dinner, most of whom were local undergrad students. Here is a pic we took after desert when everyone was about to pop. We consumed great quantities of food and had a good time hanging out for a couple of hours.
As you can imagine, our place isn't ideal for a dinner with 13 people. We turned our kitchen into a buffet line and all ate in the living room (which was slightly difficult but ended up working really well in the long run).
This is when the shikinah glory descended upon our turkey.
Well, that is about it. Kelli did an incredible job with her first turkey, and our visiting Americans took care of the dishes which made the whole event run smoothly. We managed to slowly subvert the identity of the British students and sneak in a hearty "Americanization." So that's good! WOOOHAHAHAA

Scotch egg

This is a Scotch Egg. A friend of mine from work kindly purchased this egg for me because she thought I needed to try one. So I did...

After few bites, I suddenly realized I did not like the egg. At first it wasn't so bad, but them my tummy started to rumble.
Kyle of course refused to try the egg, and his stomach thanks him for that. I do not regret trying the egg, I just wish I did not take more than one bite!