An American Thanksgiving in London

Today Jackie, Zach, and I attended the Thanksgiving Day service at St Paul's Cathedral. We met up with my friend Kate and her husband, Scott. Below is a photo of the program from today's service. 

The service featured the American Ambassador to the UK, students from local American schools, British clergy from the Anglican church, and American clergy from non-denominational churches. In addition, we were all really excited to see the inside of St Paul's Cathedral without having to pay the typical entry fee! 

St Paul's was behind a barricade and security wasn't letting people in when we first arrived so I was able to take this awesome photo of St Paul's with the statue of Queen Anne with no people in the photo! This is a very rare accomplishment. 

Typically photography is not allowed inside St Paul's Cathedral but for this event, they turned a blind eye. I went crazy taking photographs so happy Thanksgiving! Hopefully you all will benefit from the amazing opportunity I had. 

These next two photos are from the American Chapel inside St Paul's. This area is not always open to the public but they opened it special today. The stained glass (not pictured) depicts a scene for each state. 

Here is a photo of Jackie and me as we were leaving the American Chapel. 

Now for our Thanksgiving feast! Jackie, Zach, Kate, Scott, and I met up with Warren at Leather Lane Market for a cornucopia of street food. We started with a Baby Got Mac sandwich at Grill My Cheese (I've had this before but it was new to everyone else). It has cheese, macaroni and cheese, pulled pork, and barbecue sauce. Everyone thought it was really good. 

We also tried a sweet potato burrito which was a great concept but was poorly executed. We all wished there was more sweet potato in the burrito. 

We also tried a chicken kofte and halloumi wrap at Victus & Bibo.

Inside the wrap was chicken, fried halloumi cheese, salad, hummus, and yogurt. It was really good. We all said we would get it again and would recommend it to others. 

We also tried these Weirdoughs that were turkey and stuffing flavoured. Not the same as Thanksgiving dinner but they were the best Weirdoughs we've tried so far (which isn't saying much).

Clearly not a typical Thanksgiving meal, but it was still delightful and we all felt stuffed afterwards. It was really nice to celebrate the holiday with family and friends even though we are far from home.