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Having just gotten back from Puerto Rico two days before Thanksgiving, we kept Thanksgiving dinner very simple this year:

- cheese plate: Bûcheron and L'Amuse Gouda
- simple green salad with mandarins
- roast duck with cranberry-ginger sauce (we did think about just ordering Peking duck from somewhere! Maybe next year ...)
- cider-roasted vegetables
- best ever quinoa cornbread (cream top wins)
- pecan pie, thank you Petsi's!

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It was overcast and rainy most of the time we were in Puerto Rico, and I had a cold the entire time, but it was still nice to be away somewhere totally new.

Coming home was irritating, though. Had a Flying While Ambiguous-Enough-To-Be-Mistaken-For-Latina-Therefore-Illegal moment while boarding the plane ;P Um, no hablo mucho de Espanol, so surprise-demanding-my-passport-and-citizenship-en-Espanol when I'm walking down the jetway to board our flight back to Boston and showing my Mass ID was enough to get me on the plane and into Puerto Rico? is going to: a) confuse me; b) irritate me; c) bring the entire line of an already-three-hours-late flight to a halt while I start dumping out my entire carry-on to access the previously-unused passport case.

hyounpark, right next to me, apparently got the questions in English first. (Which was good for him because while I speak very little Spanish, he speaks none. I was too busy trying to comprehend the Spanish to hear what he was being asked.) Advantages of looking clearly East Asian/"Chinese"!