This year is our 2nd time to have a Group Thanksgiving Party at our home. It's good for the team to take a break from busy research work and have some fun together. In addition to almost all the current members, two alumni also joined us!
We had good dinner and then played UNO and Texas hold'em Poker. I wanted to thank my wife here for preparing all the food! We had the kabob, lamb, beef, pork, chicken, duck, baked sweet potato, corn, garlic naan, cheese cake, snacks, fruits, soft drinks, and beer...
A few group photos were taken as attached below.
Figure 1. Game Time - UNO. (People from me in clockwise around the table: Xingpeng Li, Qianxue Xia, Jin Lu, Amaze Anna Toms, Ann Mary Toms, Jesus Silva-Rodriguez, Cunzhi Zhao, Arun Venkatesh Ramesh, Elias Raffoul, Rida Fatima, Hassan Zahid Butt)
Figure 2. Game Time - Texas Poker - Last Round.
Figure 3. Dinner Time. (People from left to right: Elias Raffoul, Jesus Silva-Rodriguez, Hassan Zahid Butt, Ann Mary Toms, Rida Fatima, Amaze Anna Toms, Qianxue Xia, Jin Lu, Arun Venkatesh Ramesh, Cunzhi Zhao)
Figure 4. Dinner Buffet - food after one round…