Just in case you wondered what we do in Shanghai for Thanksgiving....
It was not a holiday. Not only did I have to cook the entire meal by myself with help from Emily (fortunately I don't work on Thursday), but Allison's class had a fall holidays around the world celebration. This at an American school. Not only that, but I was asked by her teacher to bring in potato latkes (representing Jewish fall holiday). So, not only did I have to take out 1.5 precious hours from my Thanksgiving preparations to attend the celebration at her school but I was asked to spend additional time preparing latkes! Fortunately, we spotted kartoffel-puffers (German latkes-frozen) at City Shop. Nevertheless, it made for a rough Thanksgiving day. Fortunately, we pulled it off and hosted our British friends, the Fotheringhams and gave Emily her first Thanksgiving turkey ever!
The day after Thanksgiving, we took our Chinese helpers out for a Chinese Thanksgiving... a roast duck banquet... to say thank you to them. Eric made a toast about the Pilgrims and their first Thanksgiving with the natives...
One of the highlights was watching Allison try snails... she loved them (and yes, they're covered in hot pepppers)!
Team Muhlheim (Eric, Henry, Xiao Hu -driver, Emily - babysitter, Allison, Diane- Chinese tutor and translator extraordinaire, Rebecca, Cindy - Eric's Disney assistant, me, Ling's daughter, Ling - ayi who we replaced in February)
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