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thank-o-lanterns

As you may remember, on our way back from Nikko we got pumpkins for free! Melissa and I finally got to carve them out for Thanksgiving, hence the name thank-o-lanterns. We were going to try and make the Thanksgivingish but it just wasn't working for us so we reverted to Halloween designs. Note to all of you who carve cats into your pumpkins. Make sure that more than the tail is attacted to the rest of the pumpkin. Mine started to slump a little bit after a couple days. I suppose that is what happens when your knife slips and you detach the legs from the rest of the pumpkin. Anyway we also make pumpkin seeds in Melissa's mini toaster which made for some, slightly salty but, awesome snacks.

A couple days later, on yet another random Japanese holiday, we all had the day off and had a good ole Thanksgiving dinner. Ok, let's be honest, it was really really ghetto. There aren't really turkeys in Japan unless you are in Hokkaido so we had KFC. Yeah, you read it right. Kentucky Fried Chicken. Sadly that was the closest thing to turkey we could find and it meant that none of us had to try and cook a bird, the next problem would be trying to find an oven. Maybe next year we will try for something a bit different but despite the KFC it was actually a really good dinner. Melissa went all domestic and made bruschetta, Kate made mashed potatoes, and Emily brought baked green beans. Believe it or not we had enough food to render me full but that didn't stop me from eating later on in the evening. For those that have been labeling me an alcoholic lately, I only had one glass of wine the whole night because I had to drive home that night. Later we watched Napolean Dynamite which was a hilarious. Granted I have never felt that uncomfortable for an entire movie in my whole life but it was still funny. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

posted by Aaron @ 5:34 AM