Thanksgivin's

Its been awhile since i posted, but that's mostly because there hasn't been much to update. Thanksgiving was fun though. We planned an elaborate dinner, determined to ignore the fact that Ireland didn't celebrate our traditional holiday. In honor of T-giving i skipped class. Since the subject of that class was going to be about food consumption, i figured this was appropriate.

I made two of my favorite dishes for t-giving, squash and green bean casserole. They were both quite good, if i do say so myself. We also made mashed taters, fruit salad, mac and cheese, and homemade pumpkin pie via Catherine! I only tell all this because let me stress, its not easy preparing such a meal in a foreign country, especially considering our resources. ie: the only pot i own here is about the size of a tissue box (the square kind). Oh and we had chicken instead of turkey because turkey is hard to find here and when we finally found one it was too late. So it was tough, but it all worked out. And on top of that, it snowed on Thanksgiving! That was fun because all the Irish kids were freaking out about it and trying to play in it, even though it was barely any. Apparantly they don't get much snow here. After t-giving dinner, we did what all proper Americans celebrating thanksgiving in Ireland would do--we went to the pub.



Yesterday, Catherine and I went to the Belfast Christmas market, which was great fun. They have all sorts of vendors set up around the City Hall selling things from different countries around the Continent like Cheese, crepes, crafts, sausages, mulled wine. It was neato. Here's the City Hall a la the Continental Market: