No Pilgrams, just Natives

Thanksgiving was pretty uneventful for me since I just hung around Maui.  Besides, since there's very little change in season around here, I found myself oddly confused.  I didn't have fall weather, or school midterms to help mark the time of year, so Thanksgiving didn't exactly register with me this year.  I actually had to work the Friday after Thanksgiving, so I didn't even really participate in the whole Black Friday nonsense.  The good news was that with all the shopping going down, no one seemed to want to come to the dentist!  Plus, as an added bonus, it turned out to be the week of two Fridays!  Who doesn't love that.

I did get invited to spend Thanksgiving with some Hawaiian friends from work.  They were very kind to open their home to me, and share all of their delicious food!  Seriously, Hawaiians know how to put on a good meal.  However, it wasn't exactly the traditional Thanksgiving feast since it included things like this:

This shrimp was kinda creeping me out, especially since it had some extraordinarily long antennae.  My boss showed up, and he absolutely loves these shrimp.  He was teasing me by telling me than when he was eating them the antennae were tickling the roof of his mouth.  Gross!!

Like I said, not many people decided to show up to the dentist.  However, one of my patients brought us this delicious chocolate cake!  Yeah, and I wonder why I've gained weight since moving here...

I was a little bit disappointed that I didn't have the traditional leftovers, so I took on a little cooking project of my own that weekend.

That's right, I learned how to bake a turkey!  Granted this turkey was the size of a smallish chicken, but I struggled to eat that much food.  So now I can say that I've baked a turkey, and it was actually quite delicious.  I also whipped up my favorite sweet potato casserole, and mashed potatoes.  It was all very traditional and "Mainland-ish" of me!  The best part was I had leftovers to eat for lunch for the next week.