Tag Archives: Thanksgiving

Jul5

Thanksgiving in New England – It’s finally Thanksgiving!

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Thanksgiving! Last year, Thanksgiving was a bit too busy for me to fly back to the United States… classes, and general insanity, conspired to keep me in Dublin. Which, frankly, was a perfectly lovely time with friends and classmates. 2025, however, had none of those challenges… and thus, saw Andrea and I winging our way to New England for a well-deserved holiday…

Thursday, 27-November-2026

Well. We’re finally here in the story – Thanksgiving!

We drove up from New York City. We had snacks, but we mainly saved our appetites… and when we arrived? That decision was absolutely the right one.

Infinite amazing food. Infinite smells, intense excitement, and all the happy greetings.

There’s not really much to say here – it was Thanksgiving, everything I could have asked for or hoped to have. Andrea, my family, all meshed together into a happy and excited pile of catching up, trading stories, eating great food and going for lovely walks.

Seriously – I adore Thanksgiving.

Jun21

Thanksgiving in New England – Time spent relaxing

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Thanksgiving! Last year, Thanksgiving was a bit too busy for me to fly back to the United States… classes, and general insanity, conspired to keep me in Dublin. Which, frankly, was a perfectly lovely time with friends and classmates. 2025, however, had none of those challenges… and thus, saw Andrea and I winging our way to New England for a well-deserved holiday…

November, 2025

Quiet time at home is one of those lovely parts of any holiday… and this was no exception.

Dinners, relaxed evenings, playing with the cats and stringing up the Hannukah web in the kitchen – lovely time, lovely people, and a beautifully relaxed environment. I couldn’t have asked for a better time for Thanksgiving.


Sep20

Thanksgiving in the Liberties!

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Friday, 28-Nov-2024


Thanksgiving!

So many people in my MBA class are from the United States – out of 39 people, I believe 12 of them are from the USA. All 12 of whom, I believe, were staying in Dublin for Thanksgiving…

We couldn’t let it go un-celebrated, especially with so many of our classmates having never had the opportunity to celebrate this glorious and ridiculous festival of eating a simply incredible amount of food.

Polls were taken, people counted, and dishes prepped. I special ordered turkey from a nearby butcher, bought all the bits to make a brine, and reserved “The Parlour” – a special spot in my apartment intended for hosting larger dinner parties. We did a prep-dinner a few weeks prior, had plans, and confidence that everything would go well.

Which, I’m very thankful to report, occurred. I’m very proud to say that this Thanksgiving was one of the highlights (at least for me) of the social scene of the MBA – we had almost everyone attend (easily filling the room far past capacity), and had so much food that I was eating leftovers for literal months afterward. Wine flowed, Whiskey was poured, and bottles were emptied. Yours truly did a rather stellar job with the turkey, I’m very proud to report, and heartily look forward to recreating it sometime in the future.


Ahh, what else…? Good times were had, friendships cemented, and great food consumed. It’s something I’ve been endlessly thankful to my class for – They’re all simply amazing, and I greatly enjoy all of our big get togethers like this – I couldn’t have asked for a better cohort, and I’m confident that my decision to join this MBA program will go down as one of the best choices of my life.