Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you all had a great day full of great food. My Thanksgiving was a little unconventional, but so good. We had German class in the morning and then had a tour at the Military Museum. While the tour was really long, I enjoyed the end of the tour, where we were shown the car that Franz-Ferdinand was assassinated in and the uniform he died in. His assassination prompted the beginning of World War 1. We also saw Captain Von Trapp’s navy uniform.
After the tour, I headed over to the Holmes’ apartment to help with our Thanksgiving lunch. We had pumpkin chocolate chunk cookies, semmel sandwiches, and delicious lemon-ice fruit salad. Making it was definitely half the fun. We are all in there—me, Kelly, Cara, Melissa, Melinda, Carolyn, Rebecca, and Margie— listening to music, laughing and joking, and making a few messes. I was mixing the cookie dough, Kelly cutting the vegatables, Carolyn chopping up some massive chocolate bars and every now and then slipping Kelly and me a chunk of chocolate. I loved helping in the kitchen. I’m so excited to have a kitchen to use when I get home.
After lunch we hung out at the Holmes’ for most of the afternoon. It was so happy. I love being together with our group. But we all had to leave to get ready for our last opera together, Verdi’s Masked Ball.
The opera was wonderful. I didn’t see any of it because my seat was terrible, but I enjoyed simply listening to the music. I am a Verdi fan. I sat by a very nice lady visiting from Steiermark. We conversed in German a little. I was very proud of myself.
Afterwards, I headed to Café Merkur, our group’s favorite café, with Cara, Melissa, and Melinda. I had a bowl of yummy bowl of pumpkin soup. We had a blast. I’m really sad that I won’t see them everyday next semester or have all my classes with them.