Thanksgiving part 2: the end of madness

3 kilos of butter, 18 kilos of sweet potatoes, 8.2 kilos of turkey, and 36 people are some of the great numbers that made up a very successful thanksgiving dinner this evening. We continued preparations from 10 a.m. baking rolls, mashing potatoes, carmelizing yams, making stuffing, stuffing turkey, cutting fruit... the list goes on. Guests began arriving around 3:30 and it is all a huge blur from then until we finished clean up around 9:18. I have got to give out 100 cool points to Krzystof Malewski for being the world's best turkey carver. People, believe it or not, this boy simply read a "how to carve" guide, picked up the knife, and did the most beautiful carve job on a turkey I have ever seen. Kris, you are welcome to be with me whenever there is a turkey present (and not only. he he he.)

Although Mike doesn't want to blow his "spy cover", he is allowing me to post some pictures we have of the event.

Admiring Mike.jpg
groupy.jpg
Peter.jpg
Irina and Liza.jpg
Mike's favorite gals.jpg
Hero of the night, and his girl.jpg
I'm not this fat in real life- really!.jpg

Well, the night couldn't be 100 percent perfect however. We do live in Poland you know, HELLO! So when Mike and I hopped in his "Poldek" we found it with a dead battery thanks to a draining alternator. Mind you, this is Mike's 1978 first year-first week of production Polonez which he is going to restore to perfect condition and then be the KING of the POLDEK w calej Polsce!!!! Nevermind. We successfully push started thanks to a friendly pull from a church pal, only to stall again maybe 3 blocks later. To cut the story short, we ended up waiting about 40 minutes for Maciej to come and give us a jump (he is in the picture entitled "Hero of the night"). Thankfully he followed us home, because we stalled once again after the first jump. Well anyway, home now we are! Crazy as this sounds, I think I am going to go make a pie!