Thanksgiving was so delicious! The whole family gathered at Aunt M.‘s and her son, DT.‘s apartment in the city. Dinner was fabulous...turkey, ham with pineapple sauce, lasagna (my mom made it instead), cooked greens, stuffing made out of ingredients including tiny tidbits of sausage and apples....oh heavenly, mashed potatoes with gravy, and sweet potatoes. Dessert consisted of fruit wedges, coffee crumble cake, fudge marble cheesecake, coconut cake, and chocolate fondue with strawberries. I only ate some cheesecake...that chocolate fondue was just too chocolatey-looking for me...I wasn’t up for it. Expensive tea was served too in regular Chinese cups and fancier, simply gorgeous Japanese cups...ohh I want cups like those...smooth and dark slate grey-green with no handles...felt so good to hold the warm cup in my hands and sip hot tea daintily from it. I always hate the floating tea leaves though...they get caught in your mouth or on your lips. You have to pluck them off your mouth and throw it away. I love tea made from tea leaves...Lipton and Nestea tea bags and whatever else is available now are a no-no...tea bags are a million miles away from the joy and taste of tea leaves. Mmmm...so comforting and relaxing. I was disappointed that I didn’t get to drink any liquor...everyone drank the Chardonnay by the time I wanted to have some. Aunt M. had other bottles of liquor, but they weren’t chilled. And I don’t like beer. So, I consumed many glasses of coca-cola with ice cubes yesterday night. It was good with all that food though. Everything tasted wonderful. And I love her apartment in the city. It’s expensive as hell...but it is so cozily decorated and it has the most spectacular, breathtaking view of the ocean...water, cruise ships, and sailboats passing by every now and then...the horizon at night is stunning...gorgeous hues of deep pink, blue, orange, gray, yellow, and other shades in between. And when it is night, the lights of the city and the bridge are fabulous.
This evening we watched The Patriot. It was so long, but captivating. I loved it. M. and I cried at the same part...when the little daughter finally cried out her first words to her daddy (Mel Gibson) to stay and not go back to war. It was so touching...she was so convincing...it was perfection. I was impressed. Having a child changes how you react to certain things...if I wasn’t a mother, I MIGHT have cried at this part of the movie...but since I am a mother and I know how a parent loves his/her child and how a child simply adores and needs a parent, I cried at this scene. It was so sweet.
Oh I wish the site where my pictures are uploaded at would just come back up...the site has been down since yesterday for heaven’s sake. Grrrrr...it is frustrating...I hate it when my journal page is not complete...big fat empty spaces where my pictures are supposed to be... the dreaded “box with an X” predicament. It’s even more irritating because I am trying to put new pictures up and make subtle changes in the journal layout. Come on you stupid site...return to me!!