Turkey Time

Mike and I hosted our first Thanksgiving this year, and I have to say it went pretty well. With a little help from friends in the states and a little creativity we were able to have a traditional meal with all the fixings. We had to utilize all our space (ie all the desserts were kept in the bedroom), but we fit twenty one people in our tiny apartment for an all day party.


Our tiny kitchen got a workout that day.


Apartments in China generally don't come with ovens - and our toaster ovens just wasn't going to cut it when it came to the turkey, so we had to outsource. Our friend bought and prepared the turkey and then paid a Mexican restaurant $15 bucks to cook it for us. He hailed a cab and brought it over in a big rubber maid container - it was delicious.


The weigh in. We had a contest to see who could gain the most weight during dinner. Mike came in a disappointing third place. The competition was pretty steep - the skinny guy gained like 4 pounds.


This is about half of our guests and about half of our table. The table was a little bit ghetto - and a little a bit awesome. It was composed of our table, a friend's table, our desk and the crib with a big piece of wood all covered with a table cloth - ok it was a curtain, but it totally worked. Who cares that some of our guests had to sit on the coffee table cause we ran out of chairs.


A little bit of wii - she makes it look really fun huh?