An Impromptu Thanksgiving

Well, as I mentioned in an earlier post, we hadn't planned to do anything for Thanksgiving here in Ecuador, but at the last minute we pulled something together. I'd heard about a take out place on Thursday morning where we could get Thanksgiving style food, so we decided to see what would happen. Our back up plan was Dominoes Pizza and I was fine with that.

While Spencer did have to work in the morning, he was at least given the afternoon off, so we headed out around 1:00 to see what we could find. We made our way to the restaurant I'd heard about and discovered they did indeed have some nice looking roasted turkey breast for sale. We had invited our friends Kain, Emily, and Graham over to enjoy the fruits of our search with us so we bought enough for 5 people, about 1 lb of turkey breast and some gravy (which turned out not to be gravy as we know it). Spencer headed to the register to pay for it only to discover that it was one of the most expensive foods we've bought in Ecuador to date - $27.00!!!  Wow.

Unfortunately, the sides available at the restaurant didn't look very Thanksgiving-y, but Spencer was newly inspired that this could actually work out, so he volunteered to try and make mashed potatoes, stuffing, and some other sides for us. So, off to the store we went for the fixings.

Several hours and 2 football games later, we had a (semi) real Thanksgiving Dinner with turkey, garlic roasted mashed potatoes, yummy stuffing, roasted asparagus, and a delicious improvised gravy. Not too bad overall!

It was a great evening with friends and good food. I am so thankful to be able to have a little bit of home all the way in Ecuador and to have such a great husband who pulled it all together for us.