Thankful for Tammy

Hali is a very crafty little nugget, and she has done a wonderful job enrolling me into assisting her in the magazine decorations for each birthday here. I now rock the paper chain and word cut outs. Somehow, I being one of the Chalis, have been lumped into the other Chalis creative ability. So for Thanksgiving, we were asked to rock the decorations and boy did we.

Paper chains for miles, all made out of a magazine.

Thank you kindergarten for the life lessons in turkey making

Hali and I got to thinking and realized that most of the people attending our dinner have no idea what started Thanksgiving. How can we solve that??? An educational, artistically inclined, skit of course.

Say hello to Tammy the turkey.



I would like to thank Tammy for being our bird in Israel. We had to special order a whole turkey, this task our dear Roni did for us: then sent us with a note in Hebrew that probably said, "Don't mess with these girls or I'll kill you. Love, Roni." The head of our "T-day Celebration in Israel" Megan, also a vegetarian, braved the butcher shop to get us our bird. When she got there all the butchers came out saying "Ahhh! You the dancers? We've been waiting for you all day. You from Ga'aton. Do you eat female (bird) in America?" They were thrilled to give us our whole turkey, that I am positive, they killed just for us. After handing Megan the bird, we all quickly realized this is a WHOLE turkey. Out of the top of the bag poked Tammy's legs:( and on the other end was a long neck. Let me tell you that if those are still attached, you can bet we were the ones who had to de-gut the bird.
Praise the Lord, it was not my responsibility.

Dinner was a beautiful success. We all brought a dish and they all ended up with a Mediterranean flare. It was all so good. People’s plates were piled HIGH. 




I loved watching the foreigners eat like Americans:)

Ruby got the meat sweats and wasn't doing so good by the end;)

Pretty much had to roll her home.

 Israeli Thanksgiving!