Thanksgiving . . . of sorts

Although it wasn't on the traditional 4th Thursday of November, we did cook and have a Thanksgiving dinner. And a nice weekend too.

We started off at the kringwinkel - our new favorite bargain store where they had tons of Christmas decor.

This was in the window. Kinda creepy, huh?

This is a picture of what is called a pyramid. I know the picture is small, but the whole thing is only about 4 inches tall. It's all wood and has three little candles. When you light the candles, the little fan at the top spins and the carved figurines go round and round.

I bought this when we were in Rothenburg, Germany at an amazing Christmas store and paid about €15 for it. Everything was going so well . . .

Well, someone should have mentioned that you aren't supposed to actually light the candles so the fan and the figurines will spin because a few minutes into our enjoyment, the whole thing caught on fire! You can see how the little circle burned away and the fan is black now. Not to mention the candles burned and melted all onto the table so it's stuck permanently to this spot.

I'm just glad I didn't spend more than €15 on it as there were some elaborate ones for €399!

Thanks to Randi we had a good start on the essentials and the next morning we shopped for the remainder. After consulting with our native Belgian neighbor, found almost everything we needed, with the exception of sweet potatoes. They even had whole turkeys. We opted for the turkey breast. The whole turkeys were about $100!

Here's the result - pork, turkey, dressing, chicken & dumplings, green bean casserole, cranberry jelly, even sweet tea . . .

and pumpkin AND pecan pie.

Ross and Jim did most of the cooking - as usual. I just try to stay out of the way. Ha!