Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Well we had Thanksgiving in the land of Oz! It turned out to be a good event some mishaps but overall a wonderful evening. We planned out our meal yesterday, puchased our goodies this morning organized everything and when Smyth came home after work we all got to work cooking and cleaning and preparing for our Thanksgiving Feast.

Danielle couldn't have Thanksgiving Dinner without sweet potatoes and marshmallows... Well they only have one kind of marshmallows half being vanilla and half raspberry... yuck! So we hand picked out the vanilla ones and ripped them to small bits and spread them on top. It sadly didn't end up too well the mallows turned very sugary and lumpy... A very sad Dani. :(I of course couldn't go without my corn bake... we thought that would be an easy dish but it turned out to be a lot harder than we thought. They don't make cornbread here so they didn't have the cornbread mix. So we thought we would look up how to make it from scratch... easy enough... think again corn meal is apparently not heard of here so I called my friend Dail and asked his opinion on what to do to make it work to our advantage. Knowing it wouldn't be the same but we needed it to at least be some what tasty. Well it turned out after all day of searching for the mysterious corn meal they stinking had it... it's just called Polenta and do you know what is said in the ingredients say?! Point blank Corn Meal! My word! When I asked if they had any corn meal they looked at me like I made up this thing. Apparently the Italians eat it and love it and use it for lots of meals but they just call it Polenta so since there is a huge population of Italians here they just happend to have it. Thanks Smyth for saving the day! I made my corn bake from scratch and it was mmmmmm mmmmm good!

Our final product minus the yams we forgot to put them on the table before we took the pic... oops! We had Chicken made with homemade stuffing by Smyth. Very good! Corn bake, sweet potatoes, rolls, mashed pumpkin... yum! and Fruit Salad with custard. Yum Yum all the way around... we forgot the greens but we didn't do too bad for our first time on our own!

It's dig in time! Bon apetit (sp?) we are really stuffed and are now cleaning up so I should get off the computer but I had to share our fun day. Thank you Smyth for letting us use your house, car and kitchen for this fun adventure.

I am thankful for all my family and friends that have supported me in this grand crazy plan of adventure I miss you all terribly and I can't wait to share all my stories and memories with you. I am thankful to have this opportunity to live life to the fullest and on the edge of the world. It's been a most amazing chapter in my life and it's something that will both change me and stick with me for the rest of my life.

Mushy gooshy time is over!

Did you notice my new profile pic. Smyth has this amazing didgeridoo and it has turtles all over it! So love it! The aboriginal culture is just amazing! It's bad luck for a woman to play it so I didn't even try ~ knowing my luck it would actually come true. Not taking any chances.

Well folks have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Love you all!

Muah!