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Thanksgiving & Berlin

I have a rant in me, but, for everyone's benefit, I'm going to abstain. Hopefully my latent irritation won't seep into this post. Okay, I'm over it, now.

First: Thanksgiving. I never really posted about Thanksgiving, which was just wonderful. Usually, James and I do our own Thanksgiving and invite lots of expats and Brits and sort of share the tradition around. Pass it on, if you will. This year, it didn't really work out, primarily because James had a project due on Monday and it was crunch time and there was just no way he would've been able to do it - and I didn't want to do it alone.

So I went to Jessica and Tim's (they're the friends of mine from h.s., you remember, who wound up on an Air Force base near Cambridge). It was really a fantastic time, too. Tim was actually not supposed to be there - he's in Stuttgart attending meetings for the A.F. and didn't think he could get leave - but somehow he swung it! Basically, we all gorged on turkey (on the barbecue - yum!) and all that other Thanksgiving food and could barely move for the rest of the night. Which, if you ask me, means it was very successful.

Friday, I went off to Berlin, as I mentioned. Lydia had to work a couple of the nights... which meant I got to see two operas: La Traviata and Sweeney Todd. The former wasn't so great, alas. The soprano didn't have the part in her voice, and the staging was pretty awful, though the chorus was fantastic. Sweeney Todd was a much much better show, but I didn't see it on a great night. Still, it was nice to get to the opera, something I've yet to manage here in London.

We also made it to two Thanksgiving feasts: Blonde's and Lydia's boss's. So there was even MORE turkey and even a pecan pie (very very tasty). And of course we went to the Christmas markets. These were lots of fun (though it was cold) and full of lots of neat stalls with Christmas stuff and wintery stuff and really really tasty food like sausages and glühwein. Mmmmm glühwein.

As usual, I wished I could spend much longer there. Lydia's going back to the States in March and I'm going to miss her like crazy. Bleh.

While all of this fun and games was happening, James was at the office. Pretty much continuously. He didn't end up going to Singapore.

Now, I have the exciting job of building our new superking size bed before bedtime. Wee!

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