Dennis recently celebrated his 32th birthday, which was marked by dinner at the Sheraton Hotel and a birthday cake at home. Hope your wish will come true!
Somehow, Dennis and I got everyone excited about having a "traditional" Thanksgiving dinner and we held it last Friday. Since Thanksgiving is not a national holiday in Taiwan, it was more convenient for everyone to have it on a weekend.
Finding the turkey was quite a challenge. We finally found one at the grocery store in Taipei 101 and it was NOT cheap (~$45 USD for 12. 7 lbs).
What was suppose to be a small family dinner of 6 evolved into a dinner for 13 (luckily, 13 is not an unlucky number in Asian). Since the turkey was relatively large, we invited our aunt, uncle, three cousins, one of the cousin's girlfriend, and another aunt.
Cooking together with so many people was actually a lot of fun. Everybody had a wonderful time. And yes, we were all completely stuffed. We couldn't even finish the turkey, despite having 13 mouths to feed.
I have so much to give thank for this year but I'll start with good family and friends.
So many people in the kitchen.
Jennifer is making seafood pasta, I'm supposed to be making gravy for the turkey.
Left to right: Carol, Cynthia, and cousin's gf (not sure what her name is)
Dennis carving the turkey with with from Cynthia
Dennis carving turkey with help from Cynthia and Carol (is it that hard??)
After dinner, dessert time! (all homemade, of course)
After dinner and dessert, everybody hanging around in front of the TV.
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