Giselle's Arabian Nights Party

The weekend started out great by first finding out Friday at work that I am getting a Bonus!!! The way the economy has been I was suspecting we would not get anything this year. I may invest in a new camera!

Later Friday evening Gabe and I had some cheese and crackers and Vino with Sean and Julia. It was a nice mellow quiet evening.

Saturday Night we had a 40th birthday celebration to attend for our friend Giselle. It was a Arabian nights them and it was such a blast. They had the backyard all decorated with Egyptian Poofs to sit on under lovely draped tents and beautiful lamps and candles. I loaned them by Hookah for the Party. It was a hit!

Gabe taking a puff of the hookah. We had Strawberry Kiwi tobacco in it. It was very tasty and smelled wonderful.

We had "hookah Condom" so everyone got their own tip and did not have to share

Josh, Shannon,Vickie and Holly at the party. There was lots of people to mingle with.

The Birthday Girl Giselle!

YUM CUPCAKES!!!!!

There was authentic Lebanese cuisine. The hummus was wonderful! There was also tons of vino.

Family under the tent relaxing

The Hookah section..It was really foggy that night so a lot of the pictures have this cloudy mist..it worked with the theme though

Then came the belly dancer

Giselle faces off...she certainly had done this before.

Time to get this party started!

And now for some snake charming

Us gals....

Gabe and Shannon and myself. I was refilling my vino! ( oh and yes this is Shannon Doherty)

She is super cool! I was surprised that she is the same height as me..She looks so much taller on TV.

We all kept ending up back by the hookah

Giselle and Franklin

Drinks,Chat and Hookah

We all went to sit by the fire for awhile. It was starting to get late. Time to wind down

Chilling

We noticed we never sang happy birthday so At he end of the night we all sang happy birthday to Giselle

Gabe and I stayed a bit to help clean up after the party was over. I just love a good theme party and we got to take home with us a bunch of hummus and Cucumber Yogurt sauce which yesterday I made a bunch of Chicken Gyro's and used the sauce. It was incredible.