Apparently Kassel is my go-to location for all things holiday. This time I went for Thanksgiving. That's not entirely true. Thanksgiving was obviously on a Thursday and I had to go to Berlin on Friday so I couldn't go anywhere for the real Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is what you make it though. So for the real Thanksgiving I went to the Christmas market in Magdeburg and got some delicious rotisserie chicken. I pretended it was turkey and called it a day. I did feel the urge to celebrate with some Americans though. A bunch of us met up in Kassel on Saturday at my friend's apartment with his 6 roommates. We bought some food at the store real quick and whipped up a Thanksgiving dinner. It consisted of chicken (not turkey I know), mashed potatoes, broccoli, peas, and pumpkin pie of course. Afterwards we also made some cherry coke ice cream floats. They were delicious and I could not have asked for more for Thanksgiving (I was very thankful). We also did the usual wandering through town. When you are in a new country, even just walking through town can be a fun experience. I only stayed one night this time though so the weekend went by very fast. We wandered through the park by the Orangerie (if you don't know what that is you need to go back and read some past blogs), we visited the Christmas market, and we visited Hercules again.
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| A real picture of the Orangerie. |
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| The Thanksgiving gang in front of the Orangerie. |
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| We found sheep in the middle of a city park. Very random. They even had a sheep dog to round them up. |
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| Everyone drinking Glühwein at the Christmas market. Glühwein is a sweet wine served warm. It is everywhere in Germany during Christmas. When it's cold outside, it warms you up. |
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| This green laser shoots through the sky in Kassel and points at the Hercules statue on the top of this hill on the outskirts of the city. |
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