Thanksgiving!

I was so nervous that I wasn't going to get to celebrate Thanksgiving this year because my friends and I were having a very hard time coming up with a plan. Finally, on Wednesday, I was invited to my friend Cora's flat to celebrate with her, her flatmates, and a couple of our other friends. It turned out to be so much fun! I brought stuffed mushrooms because it just isn't Thanksgiving without stuffed mushrooms! I was going to try to make Miriam's mushrooms, but after a warning from my mother that they are very difficult to make (and as I have just begun my endeavors in cooking), I opted to make more simple stuffed mushrooms. They turned out very well. I also wanted to make icebox rolls, but apparently shortening and buttermilk are not as easy to find in Scotland as they are in the States. So I will just have to have them sometime over Christmas break! The dinner itself was very good! We had turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes with marshmallows (a first for me), stuffing, mini sausages, my mushrooms, apple-rasberry pie, red velvet cake, peanut butter and jelly cookies, and a lot more. Here are some pictures:




















The wonderful buffet of food. Lots and lots of food!




















Me getting food...so yummy!




















My mushrooms!




















Lily's turkey!! It was so good!















Our plates of food.















The whole group!














Lily's pie!














The red velvet cake being iced. This process took a very long time. However, it turned out wonderful, so I can't really complain.














The peanut butter and jelly cookies!

Parents Visit!

It turns out I am very bad at routinely updating my blog. So now that I am procrastinating studying for my finals, I am going to give you a couple of updates!

As most of you know, my parents visited me about a month ago. It was a lot of fun! They took me out to dinner at several very good restaurants! We sent to a very good Indian place and several other yummy places. They also took me shopping and I got three new pairs of boots! That I wear all the time and are wonderful!

Now that I got food and shopping out of the way (the important things), I can talk about our other activities...cultural things. We went to Hollyrood palace, which is the palace that the Queen stays in when she is in Edinburgh. It is also the palace that Mary Queen of Scots lived in some of the time. It was absolutely beautiful. There is also an abbey...which is mostly in ruins that we visited. Unfortunately that day it was raining like crazy, so we spent as much time as we could indoors. So we spent a lot of time in the cafe at the palace.

Overall, it was a great visit. I am so glad they came (which of course is what I have to say since my parents read this blog too---haha). I'm sorry I don't have any pictures to show you, but those are all on my mothers computer.

Lots of Love,

Lizzie