Our First Thanksgiving

After 47 years of Thanksgivings at my parents' house, Christine and I finally hosted our own Thanksgiving.  Here's a photo of the groundbreaking event.  I cooked the turkey, stuffing, made the salad, and bought the wine and bread, while Christine made the mashed potatoes, green beans, vegetarian stuffing, cranberry sauce and salmon.  Our guests brought a total of 7 cakes and pies, as well as cookies and flowers (Christine bought another cake just for good measure).  We were 9 for dinner, and 4 dogs.  We ate and drank well, and then fell into a food coma, and then a sugar coma.  Both Simon and Lulu ate turkey and mashed potatoes, but I couldn't convince them to eat stuffing(!).  The dogs ate everything.  A good time was had by all.