Thanksgiving, Pisa St. Style

Posted on November 26, 2007 
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Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We celebrated Pisa style as they call it here. We live in housing, as many of you know, but our address is 2209-B Pisa Street. Even though mail doesn’t come to that address, it’s where we live. Pisa is a horseshoe shaped street off the main road in housing. I’d say at least once a weekend there is a get together going on at someones house on Pisa, the grills come out, the lawn chairs are setup and it goes well into the night, way past our bedtime. Sometimes the get togethers span a few houses or roam around them. They usually aren’t too loud or obnoxious. But needless to say, Pisa street has the reputation of party street. So when our neighbors told us for Thanksgiving they close off the street and party in the middle of it, I thought, I have to see this. Thursday roles around and someone brings in this white utility trailor, we open it up and it’s full of tables and chairs. We set them up, literally in the middle of the street, the wives come out and put on table cloths and center pieces and you can smell the turkeys in the fryers. About 3pm, Gabe, our neighbor knocks on the door to say everything was ready and we were getting ready to pray. We, about 12 families, gathered in a circle and held hands. Gabe offered up a prayer to God and ended with “and all pisa said”. I thought it was neat. So the menu was as follows,

-No less than 7 turkeys, yes 7, 3 deep fried, 2 baked and 2 cooked someother way.
-2 hams, one honey baked, one regular baked.
-Sweet Yams, with marshmallows.
-Lumpia and panzit, hey it is the Navy after all.
-At least 8 pounds of mashed spuds, some with cheese, some with out.
-Assorted casseroles and of course pumpkin pie.
Erin made her famous “deadly Crack Brownies” once you’ve had one you can’t stop eating them. They were gone quick.

When dusk fell the fire pits came out into the steet, you know the kind you put in your backyard. The kids still played up and down the street, it was after all blocked off with cones and no traffic came down it.
It was a good time, and a great way to meet more of our neighbors.

-Ciao`
Casey

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