It's Only December--Let's Talk About Thanksgiving

So, the Reverb10 prompt yesterday gave me a lovely gift. The prompt was: Party. What social gathering rocked your socks off in 2010? Describe the people, music, food, drink, clothes, shenanigans.

Awesome. This means that even though I procrastinated sharing Thanksgiving pictures with you for weeks, now I can! And I even have a great excuse for doing so today, of all days!

Thanksgiving has been truly great in Saudi, both this year and last. I love all the history and meaning behind Thanksgiving--giving thanks, obviously, but I also just love that originally, Thanksgiving was about cultures coming together and finding a bond of gratitude. Here, we really get to experience that in a unique way, as people from about 10 different countries showed up to partake in our feast! Everyone ate until they could do nothing but groan and call for stretch pants and a nap. Everyone laughed and enjoyed each other. And I loved every second!

Here are the pictures!

Look at that beautiful bird! My part in that was staying out of the kitchen while Husband cooked the turkey. He's an expert. (I made the stuffing and also opened up two cans of cranberry sauce.)

People pretty much lined up all the way out of the kitchen for the amazing food. We had maybe 40-ish people show up. All the Americans were instructed to bring a dish, and the end result was too much food for all the counter space in the kitchen. We ended up piling plates of rolls and drinks on every available surface--and that didn't even include dessert!

Does that not look amazingly Thanksgiving-y? (P.S.--The sweet potatoes in the upper-left-hand corner? I literally licked those off the plate.)

Lookit this artsy shot Husband got of people picking up dessert. We had so many options; again the counters were full.
I had some apple pie and also some chocolate mousse pie that pretty much met my year's quota for chocolate. Which is a lot. 

I am not kidding.

Wall of thankfulness. Not everyone contributed, but still, it was nice to be able to share with each other.

This is how all Thanksgivings should end. :)