This years Thanksgiving was set up to be a record breaker. Thanksgiving day had 17 people representing something like 7 states and 3 countries. Ages from 2 to 70 and, I don’t know weight 20 to 225. Oh, and 2 dogs and 1 cat. Yuki was the first to arrive on Tuesday, and then her friend from high school that goes to Michigan arrived on Wednesday with Randi and Chris arriving later that day as did Ashley and Dylan. Mackenzie Trevor and Greyson got in noonish on Thanksgiving day. With everyone in place the food prep started and later in the day Dylans’ parents and sister arrived as did Mahalia her sister and a Russian friend. With that the activities began.
Greyson worked on getting in party mode.
Mahala’s Russian friend was amazed by our anti gravity wok.
Ashley and Yuki did some posing with Yuki, of the lesser Big Ten School, looking on.
Ashley and I did some posing.
The Turkeys were prepped and ready to enter the cooking procedure although I’m not sure that green is the appropriate color for a precooked turkey.
Something was being cooked in the anti gravity wok.
Might have been some of this stuff.
Geyson woke up from a nap and was working on getting back into party mode.
Kitchen discussions continued.
The reenactment of the classic joke “how many Chinese people does it take to carve a turkey” was performed.
Finally the food was done and everyone went to eat leaving the kitchen empty.
After a fine meal and another hour or two of talk the day visitors left to continue their trips and the kitchen got cleaned and the day ended.
The next day was just lounging around and more cooking until that evening when the younger folks went to Nashville but not until after Greyson demonstrated his mad skills with the new stuff he got called Play Dough.
While that was going on the 2 Yukies were preparing a Shower loofah to cook.
The Play Dough got put up in preparation to eat some delicious mac and cheese.
Of course it is required to say cheese when eating mac and cheese.
And, of course, the move of discriminating mac and cheese connoisseurs everywhere, the coat your nose move.
Before everyone headed for home we had to take the group photo but because it was a dark day and I was having problems with the flash and the remote control I had to use ISO 6400 which generated a crappy grainy photo but no the less it became the award winning cover of this years calendar.
Everyone but Mackenzie Trevor and Greyson was gone by noon Sunday and we settled in for a week of doing stuff with Greyson.
