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Nov 22 2007

Thanksgiving 2007 at FOB Diamondback

Posted by Dale @ 9:40 pm in Deployment,FOB Life Print This Post Print This Post

Thanksgiving Day this year was a much different experience than Thanksgiving 2006. Last year we celebrated the holiday in Jerrabomberra, New South Wales, Australia, with our great friends from church. I think we had about 30 people over that day. Everyone pitched in bringing unimaginable amounts of food, drinks, and desserts. It was a blast! Fortunately, there was no blast here for Thanksgiving today.

I won’t bore you with the details of my day, but I will skip right to the highlight – lunch. The DFAC pulled out all stops for the Thanksgiving meal. We were able to get some photos of the feast, so I’ll just post a few here. I hope you enjoy these creations as much as we did!

Whale Cake

Cakes

Melons

Cornucopia

Seating

10 Responses to “Thanksgiving 2007 at FOB Diamondback”

  1. On 22 Nov 07 at 10:34 pm,
    Tami (Sis) said:

    :lol: I sure hope they did a spread like this or similar for Robert and the guys in baghdad….
    I just sent out his Christmas Packages….
    and soon….just getting through theses holiday’s and Robert will be HOME…
    HE gets married Feb 9th. Can you believe it?…
    and i’ll be a mammaw by JT and his girl in June….
    they’re getting married January 11th….
    so, anyhoo…not sure how i got on all that :)
    glad they treated you well for thanksgiving brother :) love you.

  2. On 23 Nov 07 at 7:45 am,
    Mugs said:

    We had 39 people over for last year’s Thanksgiving, but sadly no giant blue whale.

  3. On 23 Nov 07 at 3:44 pm,
    Toni Lea Poole said:

    Im so happy yall had a great spread dale, but i really know u wanted to be home with your family. Love you ahope to see you home soon.

  4. On 25 Nov 07 at 1:17 am,
    Chris Muir said:

    Man, the DFAC can put that stuff out! I always liked their custom omelettes in the morning. Hope your tour is going well,

    C

  5. On 27 Nov 07 at 10:19 am,
    Trudy said:

    Just to let you know, I could not let Thanksgiving go past this year without thinking of you guys. In light of that and in tribute to the Manry family we had our own Thanksgiving dinner.
    We had turkey and all the other stuff, I even did sweet potatoes but I could not bring myself to put the marshmallows on top, sorry.
    I guess theres just some cultural things you cant adapt to, anyway I’ll assume you guys are still not having vegemite on toast for breakfast, so I’ll call it even.
    Oh and Mugs I dont remember hearing a request for a giant blue whale.

  6. On 27 Nov 07 at 9:21 pm,
    Mugs said:

    I am quite certain that if I had asked Juliet to place giant blue whale on the list, you and Liz would have somehow managed to find one.

  7. On 30 Nov 07 at 7:59 am,
    Howie Meloch said:

    Dale,
    I was wondering, is the blue whale creation a cake? And what is it supposed to be resting on?

  8. On 05 Dec 07 at 9:06 am,
    Dale said:

    The whale was made of styrofoam and covered in icing. I think it was resting on the beach. It was supposed to represent Jonah and the Whale, since Jonah’s (Younis’) tomb is in Mosul. The ruins of Ninevah are inside the old city.

  9. On 10 Dec 07 at 4:50 pm,
    Jane Gilpatrick said:

    Hi, Dale! I really enjoyed looking over your website and especially the Thanksgiving photos there at Diamondback! Best wishes to all there for Happy Holidays and a very Merry Christmas!

    Jane
    AdoptAPlatoon

  10. On 05 Nov 09 at 9:50 pm,
    Jay Harrison said:

    :razz: Hey, i was there that day. I was with C 1/175th. Thanksgiving was a blast and my friends and i had a really good time there. I still miss it sometimes. I arived there august 2007 and left april 2008. Glad to see someone else that was there.

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