On 30/11/2013 3:27 PM, Gary wrote:
> injipoint wrote:
>>
>> On 29/11/2013 6:49 PM, Kalmia wrote:
>>> Here's a chance to record for next year what you which you'd done or hadn't.
>>>
>>> From what I saw, ppl should stop trying to serve family style. By the time the host gets it into serving pieces, and ppl pass things in opposite directions, the food is cold by the time you get to eat.
>>> Too many dessert offerings too.
>>>
>>> BUFFET!!! is the name of the game.
>>>
>> We're in SW Turkey and had Thanksgiving for 55 here.
>> Definitely buffet. Went on for hours. Hymn to start,
>> silence for reflection on the year past, and then much
>> conviviality. Organised by all our American friends
>> with contributions from all attending.
>
> lol You all sang hymns to start? Then silence while the food cooled.
> Sounds like a churchy meal to me.
>
> G.
>
No, it was just to let some of the Americans sing a song that
they've apparently grown up with so we all sang along too,
believers and non-believers alike. The minute's silence was
proposed by another American to just think on the things we
had to be grateful for in the past year. That was a bit on the
sad side as we all knew he had lost his wife of 42 years to cancer
in Feb. The rest of us probably (like me) were thinking "thank God
I didn't sink or hit anything big all year".

And someone did say hurry up, the food's getting cold!! because
someone seemed to be wanting to start a round of speeches but they got
short shrift in favour of attacking the turkeys.

It was a fun day, but most days are fun days in our marina.
Hoges