Well, here we are at our Thanksgiving dinner prepared by the one and only, Elder Peterson. Elder Kjar and Jutte who is 83(our member who feeds the missionaries every month) are waiting patiently for the turkey to be done while eating vegetables and chip and salsa. Yes we found some and put it over cream cheese. The table cloth over our glass coffee table was given to me by Jutte along with the dishes last year for Christmas. I was glad she came to experience this with us. She wasn't feeling well as she is recovering from knee replacement surgery.

Notice our Christmas tree. President and Sister Williams left that with us when they went home in July. It is a American flag tree with red, white and blue decorations. It went well with my theme of American and Danish people joining together for a Thanksgiving dinner.



Yes, he is proud of this turkey. Isn't it beautiful. Our friends Andrea and Brain work at the US Embasy and they were able to get a 19# turkey so we invited people over to share. Andrea doesn't know how to cook turkey so we volunteered. Most of the turkeys here were only 9#. They eat pork instead.



Here you see the fruits of my labor at the Loppe Markets. I have my blue seagull Royal Copenhagen dinner dishes along with my Ikea white plates with traditional blue Mothers' Day plates by Bing and Grondahl for the role plate. Remember that when I came to Denmark, I had only a mixture of old odd dishes that would serve two missionaries. Now look at that table setting. Thank you Loppe (flea) markets for you good deals and for those who gave me other dishes.



The table clothes I have collected happened to be blue and red. Notice the heart on the wall. In Denmark they celebrate Christmas with hearts. We were asked to take a heart to the ward Christmas party last year. We found out later that it was to decorate the trees. They didn't want it because it was so big so here it is, hanging on our wall for this Christmas.



I hope you are having fun sharing this with me. I wish you all could have been here. If you look at the wall, you will see my pictures of my grandchildren. Some are last years because I haven't had an update yet. On the coffee table under the picture you will see my antique Singer sewing machine I got very cheap this summer at the Loppe Market. My nephew, Michael who visited us last week, wants me to find one just like it for him. He said if I could find one like it for him he would also pay the freight to get both of them home. It is very heavy, about 29#. It has a wooden case. It works also, very smooth by turning the wheel by hand.



President Olauson and his family came for dinner, bringing the pumpkin pie. (Furnished by Andrea as we don't have anything like canned pumkin here or Crisco). At the end on the blue table cloth is Andrea and Brian Wainscott and on the left Amy and Don Bennion, all from Utah.



Look at the glass coffee pitcher we found to use for the gravy. I had to run next door to the Clarks and borrow the container she bought last week at the Fea market. It didn't really match, but it worked. It was a challenge to find all the things we needed for serving etc. A special thanks to the Kjars for helping, our senior couple from down south in Nykobing, Denmark. They helped us create gravy out of the spices we had and mash the potatoes without a potato masher. They spent the night with us as they came up for our Zone activity. (Another turkey dinner they helped prepare for the missionaries.) They story later.






Can you see the Copenhagen lights through our window. Just imagine a lake with water fountains and birds flying around. Dinner was served around 5pm. Notice how dark it is.



Thanks for joining us. We all had a lot of fun. After everyone went home, the Kjars and us walked up to Tivoli Gardens and enjoyed the Christmas Season there. The next morning we made Ableskivers and then went back to missionary work.