Team Thanksgiving

On Tuesday November 14, we had a team Thanksgiving dinner- it was brilliant! Our teammate Sunny Chen was headed off the Netherlands for a few weeks to train with a team there (see her blog: www.wnteuropeaninvasion.blogspot.com) so she decided to celebrate Thanksgiving early.

First, I love any holiday that revolves around food, and any opportunity to celebrate that holiday more than once is fine by me! Sunny and her roommate Jacque had everyone over to their mansion (they are Army girls, so they can afford to live somewhere nice) for turkey and mashed potatoes- everyone else on the team supplied the rest. They also had some great bottles of wine, and various desserts, so overall it was a FEAST! And of course, no handball holiday would be complete without Christian cooking up his famous escargot! I love it.

After hors d'oeuvres, everyone sat down at a long table together and had an awesome time eating, drinking and just generally being merry. I must say that it was one of the most enjoyable evenings I've had in a long long time. The stress and exhaustion of everyday life seemed to float away as we just enjoyed each other's company.

After eating enough to feed a Somalian village, we sat around the table B-Sing and having a good time. Eventually my teammate Anne pulled out a game called "Rummykube" and we played that for a few hours. I had really bad luck at first, it seemed, and I collected about a million little pieces before I could lay down. But then I laid down all of my pieces on my first turn and won (thanks to some help from my coach). It was a fun time, I can't wait until real Thanksgiving! What a great warm-up :)
Yayy holidays!