Thanksgiving!

My internet has been terrible lately and I haven't had the chance to post anything! Lots has happened in the past few days, but it's too much for one post so here's some pictures of our Thanksgiving celebrations.

On Thursday, Lora had the day off work and Libby and I got down to making her a Thanksgiving feast to remember. Being from the UK, Thanksgiving is somewhat a mystery...something about turkeys and potatoes and pumpkins. First we got decorating the house:

Then we prepared pumpkin. A lot of pumpkin.

Then we prepared potatoes, sweet potatoes, caramelised onions, green bean casserole with white mushroom sauce and pumpkin-and-potato-stuffed chapattis, and pumpkin cake and apple welsh cakes for dessert. 

And then we invited some US Peace Corps guys to celebrate with us and ate an insane amount of food

It was great to get to know some new people, have some great food and celebrate a new holiday! Now we can properly get ready for Christmas - the Christmas music is currently on, the joint Advent calender has been made and plans are being made for the big day (the only plans at the moment involve buying a big box of South African wine).