Thanksgiving

Though we were in Scotland, we did manage to celebrate Thanksgiving with some Americans. Our friends Abby and Jake were visiting from Princeton this week. We went to Loch Lomond and the Highlands on Tuesday and Wednesday, then came back to St. Andrews for Thanksgiving. Our friends Andy and Laurel and their kids Rylan and Lucas also came over. We had all the fixins. I made sweet potato casserole.

On Friday, I made sure to ask my Scots and English classmates if they had a good Thanksgiving. One said, "Is that one of those holidays where you hate the English?" I said, "It's something like that, but we celebrate when we sailed away from those oppressive English--and now, ironically, some of us Americans are celebrating this in the UK." It was good to celebrate Thanksgiving in Scotland--a place where people both love and hate the English.