Farewell and Thanksgiving

Thursday was my last day at SCIPP.  The best was a physics discussion with Stefano, who thinks that the effects I presented might also be relevant to his calculations. With 8 people from the institute we had a last lunch picknick outside. I was happy to meet most institute members again at the faculty colloquium so that I had a chance to say goodbye.
Back home, I noticed once more what awesome flatmates I had! Carena and TJ had invited lots of friends for a farewell party and they had asked them to bring typical thanksgiving food. They made mashed potatoes, rice crisps with melted marshmallows and I made a pumpkin pie from a huuuge pumpkin. Other people brought mashed sweet potatoes, stuffing (usually inside a turkey, but this time the vegetarian version just without the turkey), muffins,... very delicious food :-) Later on, we moved to a bar downtown.
A very nice, but sad goodbye. At least many of them would like to travel through Europe, so let's hope some of them will make their plans true.