Fresh Flowers.

Some flowers I "rescued" to brighten up my apartment:

I first fell in love with these flowers in San Sebastian, Spain...

What are they called, Mom?

Happy Holidays to everyone!

Thanksgiving!

Even though Thanksgiving isn't celebrated here in Australia I couldn't just let it pass by when I have so much to be thankful for.  Neal was able to come to Melbourne for a week visit after a work trip to Asia. We were both very happy to have the time together as we didn't think he'd be able to come back down here during my work holiday.  As we both like to cook we decided to prepared Thanksgiving dinner for some of my Aussie friends.

Neal carving our perfectly prepared bird.  It was roughly 13 pounds and it only took an hour to cook!  We found this video for a 45 minute turkey but since we didn't have a meat thermometer we decided to leave it in for and hour to be safe... If you like roast turkey or chicken you must watch this video:

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/11/21/dining/1194833563448/roast-turkey-in-45-mintues.html

A beautiful homemade pumpkin pie baked by our hostess, Jo.  This was a first for the Aussies, which is quite surprising because they eat a lot of pumpkin here but just not as a dessert.  

Stuffing my Dad would be proud of! 

Our group getting ready to devour Thanksgiving dinner.