ThanksGiving, AerOnion and lots of fun!

Last weekend was the thanksgiving weekend. Two nights before the thanksgiving, Dr. Neptune invited me over to his house for another thanksgiving dinner. That day was MARVELOUS. As a rule, he asks all the invitee to bring a dish that is served at home. Sure enough, I prepared for the fest, as Ammar is ready to "make" something. Part of the preparation was to have a back up plan. So, I went to Phoenicia the day before, and I bought Barazak, cookies covered with sesame. Then, I went to HEB. I bought the ingredients for my home made recipe. I bought: YOGURT, CUCUMBERS, ANNNDD fresh mint leaves!
The thing I "made" was cut the cucumbers in small pieces pour them in the yogurt. Then added salt and cut mint leaves! The result was my favorite Khyar be laban salad (literally translated, Yogurt and cucumbers salad!) Mission accomplished.

Out at the Neptunes', there were Carry, my TA from last year, and Mike, a master student taking Dr. Neptune class, and Mike's wife. We talked; played football with Aleka and Kinderek; played Go-Fish, until dinner time. The table was full of delicious traditional thanksgiving food. I have to give props for the pineapple cranberry sauce, yumy! What was different is that Dr. Neptune's wife saved some stuffing without bacon for me. That was the nicest, most tasty notion ever.
After the four or five courses meal, Derek and McKelly were up. Now, the fun begins. We played pin the tail. So, there is a turky pic on the wall. Each one has a tail sticker that has to put it as close as possible to the actual tail position; however, one is blindfolded and spun until dizziness! We were competing for a HUGE Hershey chocolate bar. Mike won it : (

After that, I started a parade with the kids on our shoulders running around the house. Lots of fun, and good times I will remember for long long times (until I get Alzheimer!)

After that, Hasan and Fuad came over to my place. We hung around till 2 am. Lotsa of fun. (Let's say we were setting my living room, complaining about how much we ate while snacking on some chips and avocado sauce. Add to the mix some smoke in the room, for visual effects that is :P)

That weekend, I was working on putting the Third AerOnion together. I was a bit disappointed that most of the team did not deliver its work by the deadline. I was also worried about how this issue will come out, but Nimisha, who was on fire, came to the rescue with amazing pieces like the Dr. Fowler article and the poem. Monday night, I was at campus till 5 am distributing. Tuesday morning, the AerOnion was drawing smiles at sleep deprived students' faces.

Comments:
"Excellent work guys," Dr. Bishop
"Fabulous," Therese
"You knooo that I have a liberal arts degree .... your classes will start disappearing mysteriously," Sarah.
"Finest work so far," Gail
"It's got a different flavor," Odin
"My wife read it, and loved it," Dr. Bishop
"He read it to his wife. She laughed so hard; she cried!" Therese quoting Dr. Fowler.