Well Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. So where ever I might be on Thanksgiving I tend to try to celebrate it any way I can...last year that meant taking the day off of work and cooking a 8 pound turkey in a small toaster oven, two pumkin pies and inviting over my Japanese teachers and friends in Japan. So I don't think there is turkey here in Thailand...actually I didn't even bother looking. But I still spent the day cooking in Chiang Mai.

Yesterday I signed up for a Thai cooking class...not even remembering that today would be Thanksgiving. I was picked up at my hostel this morning by the owner and I met two other Americans were in the car (one was even from the North Bay 15 min north of Santa Rosa!) Yet I still didn't clue itno to it being Thanksgiving. We spent the morning cooking traditional and very popular Thai dishes, such as Pad Thai, Tom Yom Soup with Prawns, Chicken with Cashews, Green Curry and coconut rice with coconut pudding with it! Absolutely delicious! Each of us would watch our teacher cook the dish and then we each individually cooked it ourselves. After each dish was cooked...what next but to eat it! So yes, I spent my Thanksgiving cooking and totally stuffing my self silly on wonderful Thai food! I think it wasn't until about the third dish that I realized this, and I wished the other two Americans a happy Thanksgiving.

We took a break and walked around the market looking at all the ingredients that we had just cooked with. Aghhh. We joked that all we needed now was a football game on the T.V. to relax to as be contemplated our full bellies!

Now I am only worried about how hungry I will be tomorrow when I am not eating every hour!

I recommend this to anyone! The place I cooked at was A Lot of Thai. You can reach them at www.alotofthai.com You even get a discount if you call them yourself!