An Irish Thanksgiving

With both of us being in Ireland for Thanksgiving this year, we decided it was necessary for us to at least attempt to make a Thanksgiving meal and celebrate the American holiday and we also wanted to show our Aussie friend, Hamish, what it was all about. With that being the case when we woke up Thursday morning we headed to the store. Kristen was in charge of the sides, which ended up consisting of mash potatoes and cooked carrots and Brittany made her famous fried pecan chicken. So yes, it wasn’t completely the typical American Thanksgiving meal with turkey and stuffing, but it was close and we were excited to do some real holiday cooking.

Even though there was only three of us, we made a meal for a small little army (hey, we are American), so we ended up sharing the meal with some other American girls who were at the table. However, even with their help, we had leftovers (Yep, now it was a true Thanksgiving). If we have to say ourselves, the meal was absolutely delicious and we stuffed ourselves. We even bought a chocolate cake for dessert, because sadly they did not have pumpkin pie.

After the meal, we headed up to the common room where we did some real R&R. We watched movies for the rest of the day since American Football was not really a possibility and let’s be real neither of us really ever watched football to start with. One of the movies that we watched was National Lampoon’s Christmas (funny enough it is a movie that both of our families watch during the holiday season, so we felt it appropriate and although everyone else in the room, mostly Aussies, were not fans of the movie, we made them watch it anyways. It was the perfect Thanksgiving and for being in a different country we pulled it off pretty nicely. We hope everyone else had a very Happy Thanksgiving as well!