Holiday Burn-Out...

 The thing about living in an International Foreigners Community is that you get to celebrate each and every single last Holiday ever invented in the History of mankind.

Holiday 1: Canadian Thanksgiving. Canooks are thankful too right? I have no pics of this event. Sorry guys...

Holiday 2: Korean Cheosuk. Second largest Holiday in Korea. Kind of a homecoming/harvest celebration. No school, no work for like 5 days. This is when we went camping:

Holiday 3: Pirates Day. It got it's own blog entry... I'm sure you remember it.

Holiday 4: Halloween!

 Holiday 5: Australia's Melvin Cup (Melbourne Cup? Melvin Cup? Some kind of cup...) It's a big horse race and you have to wear a silly hat and then bet. I bet on some lame dark horse called Americain (cuz you NEVER underestimate an American Underdog am I right?) and won the whole thing. Oh yeah, won like 160,000 Won or something and got a SWEET pink running jacket at the Nike store. I call it my Melvin Cup Jacket.

 Holiday 6: Guy Fawkes Night. This is a cool holiday the Brits celebrate. Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the houses of parliment and kill the Queen. So every year since they drink, eat soup, and burn him in effigy. WE NEED a Holiday where we burn someone in Effigy. Maybe if we finally find Osama Bin Laden we can burn his likeness and have a toast yearly. Think about it and get back to me...

 Teddy at Guy Fawkes night. Lots of soda and sparklers too! The kids had a blast!

 Holiday 7: The Indian Festival of Diwali. This is a festival of light and it goes on for like 2 weeks. They had a big party/show/food fest at the clubhouse. Here's me with my Diwali greeting dot. It has rice stuck in it.

Teddy receives his Diwali greeting:

 Here's my friend Jayshree with her 2 kiddos. She is a Canadian of Indian descent but came here from Houston so she was able to tell me a lot about the holiday.

 Holiday 8: American Thanksgiving!! We celebrated one day early with the Smith Family since Jeff had to work late on Thursday night. We had smoked turkey legs and chicken, craisins, mashed potatoes and squash, and kind of a make-shift green bean casserole, but we got an AWESOME pumpkin pie from Costco. Can't believe they had it here!

So if you're doing the math, that's almost a special event per week since we've been home. Add on Hashes, Quiz Nights, PTA events, 10K races, Flik trips, half marathon training, and good-bye coffee mornings and you begin to get how crazy busy it is around here. My friend Hayley got Pneumonia and checked into the hospital just so she could have a week off! So we're looking forward to Christmas but also an end to this insane Holiday season. Hope all of you back home had a wonderful Thanksgiving with REAL cranberry sauce! Love to all!