Thanksgiving, of course, is a purely American holiday, but as we are far from friends and family back home, it was important to Dawn to have Thanksgiving here. So, each of us invited a few people. I invited three friends from the German Studies Center, and Dawn invited our next door neighbors, math department advisor, another professor, and Zach, another post-doc. A few people weren't able to make it. Including Dawn and myself, there were seven of us: Ilan, Daniel, Sonja, Nadine, Zach, Dawn, and me. We had trouble finding turkey, so instead we had chicken. Also, Dawn was afraid that if we did have turkey, it wouldn't fit in our rather small oven. Rather than pumpkin pie, we had squash pie, but I couldn't tell the difference myself. We had stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, chicken, and deviled eggs as an appetizer. Nadine brought a yummy tuna salad-tomato appetizer, and Sonja brought an amazing Greek salad. Unfortunately, none of the pictures really show good close-ups of the food. Daniel is pictured in the left-most photo, followed by Ilan. Zach is in the bottom photo. Everyone seemed to have a good time, with lots of laughing and talking. Even without music, fun was had by all. Dawn also made an apple pie, so we had both apple and "pumpkin" (squash) pie! Yumm!!
