Thanksgiving in Iceland...

Me, Sy and Tyler (one of Sy's American teammates) traveled to Reykjavik on Friday, November 28 to have Thanksgiving dinner with Sy's family. I cooked chicken-n-dressing, sweet potato casserole, macaroni and cheese, and homemade chocolate cookies-yummy! Now I had never made dressing or sweet potato casserole or homemade chocolate chip cookies before. I found the dressing and the casserole recipes online...The sweet potato casserole recipe that I found is the one that Ruth's Chris uses so I figured that it should be pretty good and it was...The dressing recipe that I used I also found online and it turned out pretty good as well...The chocolate cookie recipe I got from Nat-Nat and it was great...I made the cookie dough on Thursday night and I wanted to test it out so I made half the batch...I made 2 cookie sheets full and they were so delicious that I sat there and ate about 10 cookies that night!!! Needless to say, my stomach hurt immensely afterwards...
One very important last minute detail that I forgot in the mist of all my preparation was the cranberry sauce...We had a little bit of trouble finding it...I don't know it you're like me, but I HAVE to have cranberry sauce with my dressing! We went to about three grocery stores before we found some...
We arrived at Elsa and Siggi's house at about 7:30pm Friday night and Elsa of course had the place decked out with candlelight and her best china on the dining room table...Siggi had spent the past five hours slowly cooking the biggest Thanksgiving turkey I had ever seen!!!! It was huge...Elsa and Siggi had also prepared salad, carmelized new potatoes, fruit salad, and the BEST mushroom gravy sauce ever! We had so much food!!!!
We before we got started eating Sy asked me to tell the story of how Thanksgiving was started in America...Thankfully, I had listened to a sermon earlier in the week by Dr. David Jeremiah on being grateful. In his sermon he described the first Thanksgiving in America...He talked about the Pilgrims coming from England to the "New Land" seeking religious freedom. Because I had heard this sermon I knew exactly what to say. I mentioned how Thanksgiving, back then, lasted three days but today we only celebrate it for one day...Siggi cut in "We only celebrate it for one day, but we cooked enough food for three days!" It was hilarious! and he was right...We had cooked enough food for three days and then some....
After that we all went around the table and told why we were thankful...It was a wonderful Thanksgiving! After we all stuffed ourselves can anyone imagine what happened next???...
We all got SLEEPY...Yep, it was a great Thanksgiving...