Thanksgiving Day!

We had a great Thanksgiving here in Durham! We decided to have dinner with our friends, Mike and Lisa. Lisa and I cooked a "traditional" Thanksgiving meal - turkey, cornbread dressing, gravy, corn, green beans, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, sweet potatoes (didn't turn out so well!) and pumpkin pie. Chris even made his famous Ferebee Cheese Dressing. We had a great time all day and a lot of leftovers.

There a couple of funny stories that happened but I think the best was when the fire alarm went off. We had just taken the macaroni and cheese out of the oven and put the pumpkin pies in when the oven started smoking really bad. We opened the windows to clear the smoke but while we are fanning smoke towards the window the fire alarm starts going off. This is not just a regular fire alarm that goes off just in the apartment - no, it goes off in the whole building and everyone has to evacuate, the fire department comes and it is a HUGE ordeal. We totally freaked out thinking that we were responsible for emptying out the whole building. As we are walking down the back stairs trying to figure out if this was our fault which we were pretty sure it was the alarm stops. Mike, Lisa and I went back to their apartment while Chris went down to see what was going on. It turns out that the alarm had accidentally been tripped by the alarm company and wasn't our fault. It was REALLY funny timing!!

Meme's Macaroni and Cheese, Green Beans and Pumpkin Pie.
Some of the big spread and Mike getting some hot mulled wine that was fabulous. Thank goodness it was hot because it was raining and freezing outside all day!

Dressing in the process. The maize meal cornbread turned out really good all things considered.