Thanksgiving, Dubai-Style.

We are completely exhausted, but had a lovely Dubai Thanksgiving! [for the 3rd time in 4 years]. It gets better every year and we are getting more adept at being prepared and organized and less stressed. But it is still a toooon of work to host a dinner for 15 people... After cooking my own Thanksgiving dinner for the 3rd time, I can safely conclude that I like Thanksgiving the best when I am not running the show, but am a helpful guest. Oh well... hopefully next year...

Gobble Gobble! My Kindergarten sign greeted our guests.

The Turkey! (and the chefs)

Our 24 pound turkey. It barely fit into our oven (and the borrowed roasting pan we used also did not fit without being squeezed in), but in the end it came out well.

Jared indulging in his traditional turkey leg, Medieval Times-style. Clearly, not as appealing to me.

Group Photo.

Another group photo. Missing a few...

Beth and Angela [+ bump].

The dessert spread.

All-in-all it was a wonderful night, with the last guests not leaving until 3:30am. We will have enough left-overs to last the next two weeks (one of my students mother's also sent us a cooked stuffed turkey and vegetables. So completely generous and nice I could not believe it. Making the grand total about 40ish pounds of turkey in the house...). I think I can safely conclude that our 3rd Dubai Thanksgiving was a great success!