My very 1st Thanksgiving celebration went really great. With families and some cooking to do, it was just perfect! (plus a gadget filled black friday lootbag from titan!) I woke up really early as I was in-charge to cook 2 of the main dishes: Seafood Paella and of course my specialty, Tom Yum! It's a tough job as I will cook for 5 extended families of Titan, the last count was 21 people! I never cooked for that many people in my entire cuisine life.They were all excited as this would be the 1st time they would have a non-american meal in their thanksgiving table. Most of the dishes they usually cook were American dishes as Thanksgiving are for Americans daw! labo! Anyhow, tita babes drove me to the nearest Asian market as we forgot to buy tomato paste for my Paella the day before. Ethan and Titan were still asleep so I had a good "ME" time for the 1st time. Oh how I love Virginia, it was the very 1st time I get to appreciate what scenery I see on the rode. Tita was telling me that sometimes when she gets homesick, she would just drive around and get in touch with nature, of course the manicured loans and trees are sooo sooo far from what we have back home in Pinas.

Anyways, going back, as soon we returned home I started my butt off in the kitchen as these 2 dishes are very mabusisi. Only to find out that Ethan was crying and looking for me, so I head up the room and pass him on to his baba. Tita babes and I started cooking at 11noon and finished about 6 dishes in a span of 4 hours, just in time when the Shorts Family were all hungry and ready to feast. Everyone else came and we were ready by 4pm for our thanksgiving prayer. We chatted and played with the kids, watched a couple of DVDs and had some photo ops. During the mini chat with the titas, I found out that my favorite tutor back in gradeschool is their 1st cousin and is now in Ohio! And my suitor in Highschool whom I almost chose to be my Prom date over Titan is their 2nd cousin! How small the world really is! We were all done by around 8pm and had to put Ethan to sleep as his Dad is soo excited to line up for the BIG BLACK FRIDAY SALE! The rest of the oldies stayed late watching more dvds over some wine. Here are some photos I took from my cam and candace's: