Happy Thanksgiving!

We celebrated Thanksgiving today like most people do in the States--sitting around the table and eating a big meal. We had some friends over for dinner and actually had some of the foods associated with Thanksgiving, like pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes, butternut squash soup and cranberries too. We did not, though have turkey, which is of course the most important Thanksgiving food item. Frozen turkeys are available here at grocery stores in the more Western part of Amman, but they are quite expensive. You can also buy a live turkey downtown, but they are so small that after plucking them they get down to be about the size of a chicken. So, instead of buying an expensive turkey or a small turkey, we went with a Jordanian classic: rotisserie chicken. We bought them at my favorite chicken shop in Amman, and here are a few pictures of the place. Oh, and they have great shawarma too.