Lazy Post-Thanksgiving Post or Pulkya, Hair Straightening, and The Boomtown Rats

We enjoyed two lovely Thanksgiving dinners last week with dear friends, Hungarian, South African, British and American. Below is a list of highlights.

THURSDAY:

 

Cooking and baking for five hours straight and loving it.  The results were mouthwatering.

The family Pálinkás' delightful yogurt/cherry dessert.

Pálinkás Réka crawling back and forth between me and her mother, the lovely Julia, to receive bites of mashed potato.

Pálinkás Dani, clutching his little blue bear (kék mocsi), calling Aidan's stuffed alien dog "PULKYA"(turkey)

 Sweet Jáno, bearing lovely gifts, silent, but grinning his schoolboy grin the whole time.

Pálinkás Péter, declaring my pumpkin pie the only one he will ever eat and love.

FRIDAY

Meeting Jaci Török, Hungarian via South Africa.  Megawatt smile, soothing voice made for storytelling.

Andrew Hornett strumming his guitar.

Watching young CETP teachers straightening their hair with a contraption I've never seen.  Fascinating!

Singing "I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats with the whole crowd.

Pétér, declaring once again that my pumpkin pie is his favorite.

Receiving a jar of aromatic strawberry/kiwi tea from the dearest Bill Robb.

Watching my boy Aidan play DJ with Cassie's ( our delightful hostess) music collection

Talking with Anna Banhegyi about her doctorate thesis on East German western films...you had no idea, did you?

Running to the HEV stop with Boone, Aidan, and Pétér in the fresh, wet snow, barely making the last train.

Three helpings later....Bill, Andrew, an Scott