thanksgiving.

thanksgiving isn't a huge holiday in zurich other than the fact that at the google office there are good chunk of americans who naturally want to celebrate the holiday and have the traditional fixings. i got sick on thanksgiving day - nothing serious, a bad cold - but this ruined my plans to make myself my very own thanksgiving dinner at the corporate 'chalet' i was staying at in zurich. i went to the grocery store on wednesday night and picked up all the fixings or at least what i could - potatoes, green beans, a piece of turkey (a whole one cost 58 CHF - about $60 USD), some cranberry jam - they didn't have canned cranberry sauce, and sadly no stuffing - this is something that doesn't translate evidently. picture of expensive turkey for proof.

anyway, because of the tragic-ly timed cold, the dinner i shopped for didn't happen until friday, although the google office came through with an awesome turkey lunch so i still got my thanksgiving meal on thanksgiving. but when it did happen it was delicious if i do say so myself.

and i did get over the cold eventually, though without the help of medicine. something about trying to communicate with hand gestures at a swiss pharmacy where everything is over the counter that i just couldn't overcome.