We had a wonderful Thanksgiving here in Cambridge with our American friends from the Summa Group. The food was amazing and we ate lots of it! Preparing traditional American dishes while in the UK was a bit of a challenge. They didn't have a lot of the ingredients I needed and I had to improvise. After a year of improvising on recipes and cooking in a kitchen with hardly any supplies I think I am going to be a very resourceful chef. I ended up buying a whole pumpkin for use in my pumpkin/pecan pie and making homemade creamed corn and corn syrup. I also found out that you CANNOT buy cornmeal over here. We midwesterners really need to share our corn products with the rest of the world! I am proud to say, however, that I found and served GREEN GIANT canned corn in the corn pudding that I made!
Transporting one pan of corn pudding, one pumpkin/pecan pie, and one peach/raspberry pie to over a mile to your Thanksgiving feast using only a bicycle was very interesting, but we made it safely.
After hours of eating and chatting Brandon and the other men played FOOTBALL in the front yard/street. Shocking, I know.
Brandon and I had to take off early to catch a movie that we had bought tickets for way in advance not realizing it was on Thanksgiving day. It was put on by St. John's College film club. We left with plenty of time and biked over to St. John's. Brandon had been joking that this would be the first time I would feel what it's like to be early for something. When we got to the room the movies are in, no one was there. We were really confused and didn't know if we had the correct time or location so we started wandering around St. John's to see if we could find some information about it. As we walked around the College at night we felt like we were in a castle or at Hogwarts! It was so beautiful and enchanting and we kept discovering more beautiful sights around each corner. As we were walking through a corridor the walkway became very narrow and sloped up and we suddenly realized we were IN THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS! It was beautiful. We finally found a brochure about the movie and found out that we were TWO HOURS EARLY! Turns out, I don't like the feeling of being early.
St. John's College at night
Inside the Bridge of Sighs
View from the Bridge of Sighs
We celebrated Thanksgiving two more times over the weekend. On Saturday we were invited to the home of some friends we met through an old family friend of mine who was studying here last year, and on Sunday we went to a large "ExPat" party with some friends we met through the Visiting Scholars network. The Sunday shin-dig was complete with a ho-down -- a guitar and fiddle, a sing-along and dancing!
We are both so unbelievably thankful to God for His blessings, for our families and friends that make being away so difficult, but also for this opportunity He has given us.
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