Thanksgiving~

Yes, I had thanksgiving in China. It was...interesting....

kidding, it was fine. It was actually surprisingly normal. I went over to a friends house (the first jewish family I met) and they had about 20 people milling around drinking wine and snacking on trader joe's food-black bean dip and chips-it was amazing. After about an hour of kibitzing with other La France people (the man of the house is head of the China operations), we walked down the street to Casablanca-a French restaurant having turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberries, stuffing, and corn!! We piled in (all 22 adults and 8 kids) the restaurant and filled the seats. The wine and gravy started flowing, turkey bits went flying, and corn went rolling down the table. It was pure family-oriented anarchy. It was awesome. Some of my friends work at this company but I still only knew maybe 5 people. Luckily, my years of etiquette training and growing up around adults, prepared me well. I smoothly incorporated myself into the party (I was one of three people not an employee of this company) and had a blast. Several hours later we began fighting over the dark meat and the remaining cranberries. The meal ended with apple cobbler-to which I taught one of the guys to say 'jia yi ge' (add another) so that he could get seconds. Well fed and no longer thirsty, my friends, several randoms, and I wandered over for some after dinner music. We listened to rock and danced until about 11.45 and then headed home for some rest.

Notice the necklace-I got 3 requests for one. Damn I got style.

Also, thanksgiving marked 8 months for Jeff and I. Thanks for giving me 8 fab months honey!!

Got a call from my girlfriend in NY-Juliet-you rock!! thanks for calling girl! Miss you!!