Thanksgiving Part 2

To read about the first part of my Thanksgiving you can click here --> read me first. Because some Lebanese friends invited us to dinner on Thursday we had our more traditional American meal on Friday.

We planned our dinner for 3 which meant I got to sleep in :)! Me and all three of my roommates needed to use the world's smallest oven which meant I actually had to get up a little earlier than I wanted to start cooking. Luckily we made it work and got all of our food ready on time.

Our meal was so delicious! Everyone made their favorites from home. Here are some pictures of the food.

We ate the dessert to quickly to get pictures! We had apple pie, pumpkin pie, turtle cheesecake, apple cider, pecan pie, and a lively conversation about how to pronounce pecan. 

Ready to eat!

The kids table 

After dinner we played a game my friend Jackie created for us called "Thanksgiving Olympics," a series of games based on some of each of our family traditions. It was so much fun! The game based on my tradition was called cousins. Each team had to write a skit about cousins getting to together for Thanksgiving.

We all watched "Madea Goes to Jail" and then spilt up the leftovers and headed home. After cleaning up and talking to my dad and Liz I finally got to bed. It was another great day!

Thanksgiving Take One

Hi Friends! It's been a long time since my last blog. The past few weeks have been crazy. Because of that, I have tons of things to write about but no time to write about them. I am so thankful for a low key Saturday where I can drink vanilla tea, wear my South Carolina t-shirt (Go Gamecocks!), and tell you about my Thanksgiving in Lebanon.

*Thanks to Christi Farley for all of the great pictures!*

Thursday November 22nd

10:00am Woke up, got dressed and met some friends at Krispy Kreme!

Elam quickly decided on the doughnut he wanted...a plain glazed. I think Hudson ate two chocolate ones with sprinkles! 

11:30am American Football! Well, 4 on 4 two hand touch football. 

1:00pm A very American lunch at McDonalds.

Some Lebanese friends invited us over for Thanksgiving dinner (Thanksgiving is an American holiday so our friends put this dinner together just for us) so over the next few hours, my roommates and I cooked and got ready to go. Thanksgiving turned out to be an emotional day for me. I think I cried a little during this time.  

6:00pm We arrived at our friend's for Thanksgiving. A lot of the dinner ended up being more Lebanese than American but it was a fun blend of the two cultures. 

This is one of our Lebanese friends carving the turkey that is sitting on a bed of Lebanese rice. My favorite quote from the night. "I like dipping my turkey in the hummus."

10:30pm Stuffed and finally home. Using skype I got to call my family that was at grandma's house. I was able to say hello to everyone there!

It was such a great day but my Thanksgiving is not over! On Friday my American friends and I had a more traditional Thanksgiving meal.