Why am I cooking turkey legs on the floor in a glass broiler? I live in Hanoi, there are no rules...and no counter space! We had potatoes boiling (no instant potatoes - which would be great since we had to work till 5:10 tonight) and we had zucchini frying. So the cutting board, resting halfway into the sink, was taking up our remaining counter space.
Most expensive thing we bought: 3 buck can of Campbell's gravy.
All in all, I'm just pointing out the crazy situations we get put into in order to keep our traditions alive. We had a nice evening.
(Yeah it's a fake tree with fake snow... it makes us feel at home so we are happy with it)
Saturday we are joining a colleague at his home for Thanksgiving. It should be a great day sharing Thanksgiving in Hanoi with them. The best part is, because it is an ignored holiday... we get to celebrate it more than once!!! Having Turkey Day a few days late in the USA would be a felony in certain states. Here, we get to have our Thursday night (not evening - we didn't eat until 8pm due to cooking after school) and we get a lovely afternoon enjoying Thanksgiving at a friends house. A friend who has a stove! Not the normal Hanoi "you are an expat-we put an oven in your house-oven" but a real oven, big enough to cook a turkey! Ovens like this are few and far between here.
Where ever you are reading from, Happy Thanksgiving!
We are thankful for Skype - we may be far away, but we have been able to talk to our family and friends a lot more than the old days of barely-audible, expensive Jakarta - NY phone calls and 2 month postal waits. We may be far away, but I think we couldn't have lived in a better time to be close to family through technology.
Gracias SkyNet.
As we approach league play.... ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK!!!!
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