Thanksgiving 2.0

As soon as we’re getting into the Christmas cheer we realize it’s still November and Thanksgiving has not even happened yet. So us Americans realigned our priorities and continued to plan our 2^nd Annual Thanksgiving Day Feast for Foreigners (I just made up that name).

All the grub

Last year in HK we used the university’s restaurant grade kitchen facility to cook for about 20 people. This year we upped our game a bit by cooking in a world-class Tietgen kitchen for roughly 24 people. Turkey isn’t popular meat over here so everyone was eager to not only eat Turkey, but see how we were going to manage to cook a whole one! Along with our normal 20 casseroles, we also introduced Denmark to Hot Wing dip and shipped in canned pumpkin for pumpkin pie and cookies. Let's just say that country will never be the same again.

The set up

Us girls

It was another successful feast and we cook a trip around the table to find out what everyone was thankful for this year. It was a great excuse to get several different groups of people together. We had both Debbie and my’s kitchen mates, Andrew’s flat mate, Nils, and part of the HK crew. We also forced people to pick numbers for seats in order to sit next to someone they didn't already know. It was a blast and completely delicious. And actually not as many leftovers as you’d expect given the amount of food prepared.

Trio celebrating another success with probably Fisk

Kitchen 14.6

Just after our big celebration, we had two more of our fellow Hong Kongers come visit the stunning city of Kobenhavn. Yvie and Meli. They had just flown from Amsterdam so they had quite a few unique stories upon arrival. We had an extremely limited time with them so we hit the highlights! Nexus bar at school, The Little Mermaid, homemade vegetarian lasagna, a bit of shopping on Strøget and then the bar. We all had a great time in the city dancing and partying all evening then it was back to Austria for the girls!

Playing BezzerWizzer at Nexus

The Little Mermaid

Out for the night

Holidays Starting Early

The semester has really been jam packed with events. We scheduled our trips according to when people would be visiting in Copenhagen, just to make sure everyone and everything. A big must-see was Tivoli, the second oldest amusement park in the world, accompanied by beautiful gardens. It happened to work out that Christian was in town for another visit and joined the trio for a visit to the park.

Outside of Tivoli

There are three different themes throughout the year and we were told that the Christmas decorations were the best. It was true.  The entire park was turned into a Winter Wonderland with all gift shops selling ornaments, Christmas trees and decorations, vendors selling æbleskiver (Americanly pronounced apple skewer) and glögg, and an overall holiday cheer. Although we didn’t ride any of the coasters, we had an awesome time strolling through the lighted paths and enjoying our mulled wine with almonds.

The Chinese Area

Beautiful Garden and Lights

Another exciting thing we did with Bes in town was cook an enormous pile of pancakes and go to an outrageously German bar called Heidi’s that played this song. 

Yummy Breakfast of Champions