In November, Carsten Rübsamen left permanently for Germany after coming to Austin to bake us a batch of gingerbread cookies made with a host base:

Ozi helps to make the cookies a bit more "magical":

Jakub breaks several city hygiene codes by infusing the cookies with pubic chest hair:

And the rest of the international set of helpers (with shirts on):

November is also the month of Thanksgiving, though if there are no pictures to record it, did it really happen?

Actually, Emily, Sophia, and Usama provide us with these curious cultural artifacts:

Their relation to Thanksgiving Day, however, is quite tenuous.