thanksgiving day

we were supposed to travel to connecticut today to spend the holiday with my family. however, my sister came down with a sore throat and fever and, thus, we have postponed the trip until saturday. since we had a turkey meal tuesday evening, i reheated turkey slices in a gravy sauce (which i learned to make on the new york times website via a cooking video). i raided our frig and found a cauliflower morgana had picked up with greg at the coop. i steamed it and then covered it with melted butter. we also had mashed potatoes and creamed celery. to end the evening we played charades and "racko." i don't know where greg found racko, but i think it's a game he used to play with his grandma many years ago. he usually manages to win, as he did this evening.

this morning we went ice skating at bryant park and watched the parade floats waft by. our friends were there and we had a nice time with them before breaking up for our respective dinners. on the way home, morgana, chanda and i walked by lord and taylor to see their holiday windows. the theme this year asks "what is christmas made of" and the windows display many framed childrens' drawings of their favorite aspects of the holiday season: sledding, looking for a christmas tree, decorating, building a snowman and baking. of course, all the moving figures then enact these activities. it's always very enjoyable to see. afterwards, and before getting on the train for home, we stopped at le pain to get some tea and hot chocolate. we also met tsering to get the second harry potter movie, so the afternoon was filled with movie watching and cooking.

we also read a few thanksgiving books (between this evening and yesterday evening): thanksgiving day, by dianne m. macmillan; the wampanoag, by kevin cunningham and peter benoit; squanto and the first thanksgiving by joyce k. kessel; the peterkins thanksgiving, adapted by elizabeth spurr; thanksgiving poems, selected by myra cohn livingston; and (last, but not least, one of our favorite fun holiday poets) it's thanksgiving, by jack prelutsky, illustrated by marylin hafner.