NYC & Thanksgiving

The day before Thanksgiving we took the train from New Haven to Grand Central in New York City. The last few times I went to NYC we used the subway exclusively but this visit we were all cold and tired and we didn’t go on the subway (worlds shittest underground) and only used Uber – they turn up instantly and as there was 4 of us it almost wasn’t worth getting the subway anywhere. Bronte’s boyfriend Chris is a farmer from Wiltshire so it was pretty funny watching him stare around at the massive buildings.

We stopped at a Japanese restaurant.

And after that we went to the top of the Empire State Building to see the city lit up at night.

Now somewhere that day Bronte and Kim must have picked something up because they were both super sick that next and the next day and then Chris was sick the day after that (I was fine) which wasn’t timed great as we turned up to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in the city.

We got there early and it was absolutely packed and freezing cold at 17f (that’s -8C for you metric chaps).

We were all feeling the cold, perhaps slightly less than these cheerleaders.

Kim, who wouldn’t stay at the hotel for fear of missing out, kept having to scamper off to vomit in a flower bed.

And Bronte managed to keep down the vomit but had forgotten her gloves and just sort of gave up miserably and sat on her handbag.

I had a lovely time though… after a little while we gave it up as a bad job and missed the rest.

And we had to leave Bronte and Chris in the city for the rest of their vacation and make our way back to Connecticut, poor Kimmy slept almost all of the way home and I had to drive her car back but it was still lovely to have my sister and Chris to visit… even if they were all sick! Back home when recovered Kim made my belated cake construction – the theme this year was The Sims. Hmm…

Thanksgiving 2017

Just a short post about Thanksgiving – I had the day off from work for Thanksgiving (and also black Friday off – score) and Kim was working in the afternoon so one of my colleagues invited us over for lunch which was really kind. I asked what we should bring and was told potatoes and I’m not a big fan of mashed potatoes so I made sauteed with herbs etc and I was thinking we’ll need a lot so I almost tripled the recipe for two people and created a production line of potatoes – needless to say my fridge is still full of millions and zillions of potatoes.

So we had a tasty lunch then Kim had to go to work and I stayed and won a very inventive game of pictionary with another colleague.

Accompanied by 4 weeny dogs – super cute.

My nemeses, the leaves, have been slowing down finally. I tried a new trail out in Nathan Hale State Forest.

Again the leaves were against me and hid the path at one point on the way back so I just followed my GPS on my phone back to the car – nice try leaves.

My First Thanksgiving

I had my first Thanksgiving on Thursday, Kim’s American and it would be her first Thanksgiving out of country so we made a day of it and stocked up on tasty bits and bobs.

We watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade which I found so bizarre, their product placement was just shameless! Also afterwards for some odd reason they had a dog show… but I quite liked that.

Then we got the house ready and cooked up a storm for our guests about to come over, we also broke out the turkey hat which as you can see is reluctantly modelled by Barclay my cat.

   And then our friends popped over, it was a Thanksgiving potluck. For those of you not familiar with a potluck it’s basically where every guest brings a different dish. Sarah made us personalised sausage rolls, Nancy made pies, Joy made cheese biscuits etc.

I made a turkey fruit platter

And Kim made pumpkin pie which turned out very nicely, her friend (also called Kim) very kindly sent over a pumpkin care package including canned pumpkin.

Anyway I had a jolly nice first Thanksgiving