Among the Antipodeans: Thanksgiving in New Zealand

Thanksgiving!

While Jess and I were certainly sad to miss out on Thanksgiving back in the US with family and friends, we did our best to bring Thanksgiving to New Zealand. As it turns out all of our flatmates, remember primarily German and Austrian, had heard of but never celebrated Thanksgiving and were excited to join in with us. (It's worth noting that knowledge of Thanksgiving is limited in these parts, one of Jess' coworkers asked if American Thanksgiving was the same as New Zealand Christmas). So, we set about organizing a Cargill Street Thanksgiving feast.

After a numerous trips to the grocery store and the discovery that turkey here is very expensive (and I mean very expensive, we bought a 13 pound turkey for $85 dollars....on sale) Jess and I spent most of Thanksgiving day cooking a giant meal for the entire flat (With big assists from our roommates Sandra, who helped us throughout the day in the kitchen, and Amy, who made a delicious stuffing). We were a little nervous, as we'd never cooked a full turkey before or a meal for so many people. The meal turned out great though, and the turkey in particular was delicious. All and all it was a great Thanksgiving. To keep from going on and on about how much we ate though, I thought I would fill the rest of the post with pictures. Hope you enjoy!