Thanksgiving seemed anti-climactic this year. We spend the Wednesday prior to Thanksgiving
in Palermo with the Catania and Palermo Mission Tour. Even though we had Panini and green salad with
pumpkin pie it seemed like Thanksgiving.
I bought the pumpkin pies from the commissary and baked them one at a
time in my tiny oven for a total of nine straight hours of baking to surprise
the missionaries with a taste of home for Thanksgiving. I am not sure if it was the spray whipped
cream or the pumpkin pie they like best but it was an amazing favorite!
We had planned to take our Catania missionaries to Sigonella for the
Thanksgiving feast at the Ristorante Bella Etna on Thanksgiving Day but it turned out
that our Zone Leaders traveled with President Pickerd to Rome on Thursday for a
Mission Leader Conference. That left us
with no one to share Thanksgiving with;we made the best of our circumstances! Military families enjoyed a four day weekend and in Sigonella that means a trip will be planned. One family went to Jerusalem, one family to Paris and one family to Rome. We spent Thanksgiving dinner with our military families and their Italian national guests dinning hall style. The Base Commander, Captian Trickle and the base Chaplin Hervy were serving the troops Thanksgiving dinner. I am not allowed to take pictures of military personnel in uniform so that leaves only the food, of course it was jam packed with military!
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| The weather was perfect 72 degrees outside. Several tables outside were full of military in uniform! |
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| Those trays reminded me of school lunch! |
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| There is pumpkin pie right in the center, unfortunately the pecan pie was gone when I took this picture! |
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| Salad bar |
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| Crab legs and lobster tails were on the buffet! Not ever to be found in school lunch! |
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| Scallops | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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