LoonWatch: Thanksgiving in Minneapolis

First thing in the morning, Bob's got the bird stuffed, stitched and ready for the oven.

Susie starts the squash soup.

Bob's dressing is going in the oven.

Susie finishes up the soup and it tastes darned good.

The table is set.

Guests start arriving: Susie and Susan

Sam and Serena pose for a photo. Sam and Ethan arrived sporting mohawk hairdos.

Bob basting the bird.

Ethan, Susie, and Sam make the punch.

Ethan, Susie and Sam showing off the lime punch.

Bacha (Shirley's grandma moniker) found a new board game, "You Gotta Be Kidding," to try out. It was a lot of laughs and provided a lot of entertainment. Figuring out how to play it was pretty entertaining in itself. Susan, Peggy, Serena, and Grandpa Bill are looking it over.

Bob with the roasted turkey. He made the gravy for the mashed potatoes and stuffing. Uncle/Grandpa Bill made the traditional chicken pot pie. There was also Shirl's creamed onions, Susan's green beans in a spicy yogurt sauce, Bob's brown-sugared baked and mashed yams. Shirley brought a Parisian green salad and Susie found sour dough bread to accompany it.

Bill and Tom tackled the first bunch of dishes to make room for the dessert to follow.

For the beginning of dessert, Ray, Joe, Ethan and Sam presented Peggy's birthday cake.

Mary and Shirley start serving the pies, cakes, whipped cream, and ice cream for dessert. Bill and Serena made pumpkin and pecan pies and brought a big box of cookies with icing. The cookies looked like turkeys and cornocopias. Tom and Mary arrived with pumpkin pie, carrot cake and whipped cream. Hmmm...it's a good thing there are some sweet teeth among us!

Bingo 5 is another new game introduced today. This is the dessert session. Bob is calling in the lower right. Peggy is observing and eating delicious pecan pie. The players are Ethan, Joey, Tom, Serena, Sam, Bacha, Ray, and Bill.