thanksgiving in cabarete

we celebrated thanksgiving with a bunch of friends next door at the windsurf hotel. our friend and the owner of the hotel, gordon, arranged for some butterballs and did the cooking himself. the food was very good - they even gave a good shot at a pumpkin pie (not much pumpkin here).

there were 12 of us in all. just 3 americans - rich, sarah from michigan, and me - for whom the holiday had meaning. the rest of the table was made up of spaniards, dominicans, a swede, a bulgarian, a canadian, and v of course representing the dutch.

we did manage to get in the tradition of watching a bit of the Macy's day parade that morning. for some reason, i always feel i need to see that. we didn't watch any football though. we actually worked during the day - veronica had a shift at the sosua office, and i joined here there for some that.

the pictures are of the group celebrating thanksgiving; german and rich with their brown striped shirts; and gordon hamming it up in his chef hat.

it has started to be a bit cooler in the evenings now. this means it was like 72 degrees or something versus when it used to be like 88-90 and humid as hell at night. you can see that some of us are wearing long sleeved shirts. even still, we're sitting in an open air space - a bit different for a thanksgiving for sure.