THREE Thanksgiving Dinners

You'd think in a place that doesn't even celebrate the American holiday Thanksgiving, that it might go unnoticed. Thursday was a normal business day, but that night we took a taxi over to Andrew & Sandy Lai's house in Repulse Bay to join them and about 25 of their other friends for a traditional turkey dinner. Craig & Andrew served their missions in Hong Kong at the same time, though Andrew is a native. He met Sandy, who's from Idaho, when they were at Ricks (now BYU-Idaho), and they have lived here ever since. It was an enjoyable evening with lots of tasty American foods including pumpkin pie. 
Then on Saturday, all of the missionary couples got together to enjoy turkey, stuffing, and gravy prepared by the wives of the area presidency. All of us couples brought mashed potatoes, string beans, sweet potatoes with melted marshmallows on top, cranberry sauce, fruit salad, homemade rolls, and apple & pumpkin pie with fresh whipped cream on top. It was hard to believe we were still in Hong Kong after that feast!
We thought we had seen the last of the turkey (an expensive, imported item here), but then we attended our new branch, the Peninsula 2nd, which meets in the HoManTin building on Kowloon-side. After the regular meetings, we were treated to a more modest meal which consisted of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, with some sort of tapioca fruit pudding for dessert--our third Thanksgiving dinner for 2010. 

Our very American meal! Kevin & Suzan Nield and Verlin & Pam Lee shared our table.