On saturday the 24th Ian and I celebrated Thanksgiving by co-hosting a dinner with our neighbors, who are from New York. There was a bit of a panic since when we got the turkey from our neighbors at 12 (it had been defrosting in their fridge since wednesday) it was still partly frozen. We thawed it as much as possible and put it in the oven. We also made lots of mashed potatoes, Ian backed a pumpkin pie and I made caramelized shallots. We had green beans and baby carrots as well. The neighbors made a tofurkey (as one of them is vegetarian) and stuffing and a pecan pie. We had invited Sam, a girl from my MA program and her significant other. Our neighbors invited a couple from new Zealand and a woman from California. The Turkey came out great and Ian did a wonderful job carving. Now we have lots of leftovers for the next few days.
On Sunday we stayed in and did a some school work. In the afternoon we did a tour of the bookshops: oxfam, blackwells and borders than went to the library and finally stopped and the Guild, a shop/gallery where I bought some cards/prints from a local artist who does mostly scenes of Bristol, so now we have something to hang on our walls.
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