Thansgiving Weekend Recap

So when we parted ways I was hoping my rolls would turn out and they did! They were not the perfect little round rolls depicted in the picture but more like crescent rolls. There were a few steps that I cut out about halfway through dealing with a specific way in which to roll out the dough so that a center divet could be created to place some melted butter. The recipe called for using a tiny wooden rolling pin..of course I didn't have this. After much trial and error, I was using the end of a wooden spoon to roll out the dough before decided that that step was just creating more work because of the need to refashion some edging so the butter didn't slide right out. In the end, I smooshed it flat with my palm which kept the natural edges there. Worked fine, the resealing process left me with crescent shapes instead of a more rounded roll look, but that seemes to be the only thing that went awry. I should have taken a picture but I didn't. Next time.


Thanksgiving dinner was great, M's mom is great at making the traditional dinner. M was happy because he got his own pumpkin pie while the rest of us had a pumpkin trifle. On Friday, we went to Magog, QC which is a town just past the border of Canada. I was suprised by how little English was spoken and hence, how little signage was in English. We ate at a little cafe for lunch where the menu was entirely in French. In every store, we only heard French and were greeted this way. Once it was evident that we were speaking English, we were asked in English if we needed help finding anything. For some reason, I didn't think French would be so widely used. It was really neat though and I'd like to go back when it's warmer and I don't have to hustle from store to store. Here are some not very exciting, blurry, assorted pics from the trip.


































Oh, and here are some random not very good pics of some birds at the feeder outside M's parents dining room window:

Our journey home was uneventful except for a situation that has played itself out twice now in the exact same way. It makes me think we are cats with at least two lives at this point! We were traveling on the interstate in the right lane, basically neck and neck with a car in the left lane. Each time, the car in the left lane has hit something, at the time it's happening it's impossible to tell what, and they veer off as the thing flies in front of our car and across to the side of the road. Isn't that weird that's happened twice? The first time it looked like some kind of coyote, this time it looked like the guy blew out a tire. We pulled over to the right, they pulled over to the left. We wanted to see if they were ok but there was no way to cross the highway saefly, although M was all set to go till I sternly reminded him he'd end up on the side of the road just like the coyote or whatever that was if he tried. Another truck pulled in behind us and we all kind of sat there for a moment, since we couldn't cross we eventually left. Bizarro.