Amy worked all week to prepare for us a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. She made pumpkin pie from scratch, which is amazing considering they don’t really have much pie here, nor pie crust, nor regular orange pumpkins. She used a local variety of pumpkin that is actually green on the outside. We also had corn, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, and of course turkey (which is actually common in Chile). In place of cranberries (which they don’t have in Chile), she made cherry sauce.
It was great. The only weird thing was that it was a normal day in Chile—everyone else at work and school (we skipped), all the stores open. This means that, unlike those in the US, we didn’t have to wait for the stores to open at 4am on Friday for Christmas shopping—we just went right out after dinner and started buying Christmas gifts.
