Don’t look at me like that – this is not the strangest thing I’ve done on this blog. You know the craziness drill around here.
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| Getting ready to cook |
Number of people who attended last year: 14
Percentage of repeat guests this year from last year: 72
Number of people last year who had ever been to a Thanksgiving dinner: 1
Number of those people who were me: 1
Number of people who attended last year who admitted Googling “Thanksgiving” because they had no idea what to expect: 5
Number of people attending this year: 16
Number of people attending this year who had ever been to a Thanksgiving dinner: 10
Number of those people who had been to a Thanksgiving dinner because they came to ours last year: 9
Number of people our house will comfortably hold: 8
Number of people invited: 18Number of people in attendance whose name begins with a vowel: 2
Number of people in attendance who are American: 1
Number of people in attendance who were born in England: 9
Number of people in attendance who are vegetarians: 5
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| Homemade salad dressing |
Animals at our house at the time: 1
Animals at our house at the time that are canine: 0
People who at some point during the evening had to sit on the floor: 4
Number of photos taken: 326
Bottles of wine at our house before the party: 3
Bottles of wine at our house after the party: 7
Number of candles burned: 15Number of dishes served: 15
Number of dishes that had leftovers: 1
Hours spent preparing the food: 6Hours between the last guest leaving and our departure for Belgium: 0
Number of countries in some way represented: 7
20 comments:
Loving that first photo!
And sounds like you have a new tradition to uphold!
Hi Paige,
Thanks for your visit and comment on my blog!
I have browsed some of your blog and I love it, it's brilliant! I love the way you write, and your stories from your parents visit made me laugh out loud!
I'll be back to read more :-)
Sounds like a good time!
I think it is the coolest thing. Seriously. And I love cramming people into small spaces. Great!! When Hubs graduated we had a ton of people in my house. Like 34 people...most of them small. It was a bunch of fun! What a great tradition!
I think you have started a wonderful tradition! i am so glad you loved the puppy. She has the cutest name....grits, only in the south! Her big brother is called tater, for potato salad. They are regular visitors to our classroom.
Wow!! Sounds like quite the feast! And 326 pics only?? I've been known to take 500+ without blinking an eye. Now tell me if I've done anything with all those pics and I couldn't tell ya ;o)
I love the wine count! Sometimes at a big party, I'll score four or five bottles of wine! I love it because it's typically wine I wouldn't buy myself and I usually find a few real gems in there...
fabulous items...
thanksgiving is a wise take..
Greetings, Happy Firday! Blessings…
Friendship Awards, Enjoy!
Thanks for the support, You Rock!
xxx
I love it, especially that they had to google Thanksgiving to know what to expect! Great post!
Paige, you are so sweet to have such a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner. I hope everyone brought a dish of food to share!
So much fun! I love all those statistics!
Teresa
Fascinating statistics. I love that you did this :D
With 5 vegetarians in attendance, I'm curious about the menu. What did you cook besides turkey and the standard side dishes?
I'm a vegetarian, too. I normally just cook the usual, because I end up lacking the energy to make something special for myself as well.
I loved this post! The statistics are great. How fun that you are sharing a bit of American culture, and how sporting of your friends to join in on the fun!
I love the idea of Thanksgiving and we have a dinner over here every year and I am not even American! I think it's definitely an idea worth sharing!
Best wishes,
Natasha.
You took 326 pictures but you're only giving us 2? What gives?! Where's all the pictures of people eating all the amazing food you must've prepared or the aftermath of all that eating? Where's the photo of all the empty wine bottles? Where are the photos of the food! The suspense is killing me!
By the way, I totally laughed out loud on the googling stat. That's totally what I would've done :)
Haha. as myorii said, we are waiting to see the rest of 324 photos you took!!!
Maybe you've started a movement, and more and more of this initial batch will fan out and infect others with the Thanksgiving spirit/tradition in future ;-)
i like the late recap - it's totally fun to remember good times! :)
Paige, I'm not sure why but this made me feel for a moment like one of those complicated word math problems where you have to calculate percentages, etc.
I started to feel some anxiety and then I had to laugh at your statistics.
What a terrific and fun link to Alphabe-Thursday's letter "T".
You just make me smile.
A+
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