Thanksgiving Feast

Well being in Austria for Thanksgiving I didn't have the traditional celebration. I wasn't with my family and I had school on Thursday but it was still good and I am still grateful. This year, I have so much to be grateful for and so it was so good to have two days to celebrate! The Lord has blessed me so much and I have seen His hand in my life so much. I am grateful that he knows all and loves me. I am so grateful for my testimony of the Gospel and the happiness it brings to my life. I love my family so much and I am so thankful for them. I am grateful that Landon is serving a mission. He is doing the Lord's work! I am so grateful for the opportunity I have to be on a second study abroad. It is amazing how life works out and the things we do that we never thought of doing.

So on Wednesday, our BYU group got together and had a Thanksgiving feast. It was amazing because we were able to get turkeys, pumpkin pie mix, and other American foods from the Army base in Frankfurt and the UN Center in Vienna. It was so good and so fun to cook and help make food. We had a lot of food and it felt like Thanksgiving because the group has become like family as we have been together for the last three months. We started by having a devotional where we all shared about what we are thankful for and then a few stories about the origin of Thanksgiving. We then ate until we felt sick!

Here is the dessert table.....lots of yumminess! Pumpkin pies, apple crisp, sweet potato cheesecake, and more!
After a little lounging around we had a talent show. It was so fun because there was a great balance of fun and serious acts. I was part of the group that did a music video as our talent. It is pretty funny!

Then after the party, a group of us when to a soccer game. It was so cool to be at a sporting event! The soccer game was between Oesterriech and Tunisian. The final score was 0 to 0! No goals but still fun to watch with a lot of close ones.

Then on the actually Thanksgiving Day, I went to school in the morning. It was so hard to get up and go to because I just wanted it to be holiday so badly. But after class I then went to a chocolate museum. It was amazing because we got chocolate samples!
This is me oh so happy because I am eating chocolate! It was the best truffle I have ever had! So then after that I went to Shoenbrunn and walked around the grounds. It was fun and so beautiful with a little snow on the ground.

That night, I went out to dinner to an Austrian Restaurant....because it was Thanksgiving Day!
I got veal scallops with mashed potatoes and salad. It was so good! Then we walked around the city and enjoyed the wonderful setting of Vienna!