American Christmas Dinner

Today , just like every year, we celebrated Christmas with the American part of our family. Thanksgiving and Christmas are the two holidays I'm always looking forward to. My aunt always invites my brother, my cousins, granddad (he's not really my granddad- but everyone calls him granddad) and me over to her house. This feeling when I enter the living room is nearly indescribable. Everything is beautifully decorated, candles
light the room, glasses and plates are thoroughly arranged on a long table and the smell...oh god I love the way it smells. Once everyone has arrived, we all sit down and usually the older cousins serve the meal. The rest of us enjoy the American Christmas songs played by a suuuuper old radio (looks like it's from the 60s) and chat a bit. Usually we start dinner with soup (today it was pumpkin cream soup), then continue to the main course (usually Turkey with stuffing and various side dishes). By then, most of us are aready full, so we stop eating for an hour or so and talk to granddad in the meanwhile. Granddad is a funny old man (he's like 96 years old). He's my aunt's dad (so he's American) and always switches between English and German. His German sounds really funny because he pronounces our German "r" in this funny American way -> my little cousin likes to make fun of that and imitates his accent : D. Since he's not the youngest anymore, his memory deserts him from time to time. So being asked for your name 3 to 4 times everytime he sees you is nothing unusual. Today he asked me what I do, and I told him that I'm studying Russian and English. He was like: "oh..you're studying English?" and I was like.. "yes" ...then he said: "oh.. *thinking pause*  wait, we're speaking in English right now, right?" So we all started laughing and my aunt said: "yeah, dad, you are speaking English, but that's ok" And so he smiled as well. He always gets really confused with so many people in the room...so sometimes he even asks if my cousin is my boyfriend, or if my cousins girlfriend is his sister *haha*
Granddad makes those already great evenings even better. After chatting for some time, we usually eat ice cream or cookies or some kind of pie (today it was apple pie : D ).
After this awesome dinner we help cleaning up and then everyone is so tired from eating so much that we all go home and straight to bed.

GOTTA LOVE MY AUNT! (and her cooking skills : P)