Thanksgiving this year was as interesting as always. It started out as a normal Thanksgiving Day. I would get up, go down stairs and see what is going on. Normally, I will try to refrain from eating anything until dinner, which I successfully did this year. My family and I went to my grandparents around one in the afternoon and spent some time with them. My aunt was also at my grandparents working hard on the meal with my dad (her brother). Around 5:30 dinner was ready and it was delicious. I remember eating all sorts of good food including turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and various other things you might not think would be on a Thanksgiving table. We ate for at least an hour and when we were done we stayed for another hour.
We said are goodbyes and left, but even though it was 7:30 there was still places to go to. The other side of my family is huge. I have over one hundred first and second cousins and we all get together at one of my distant cousins house We never arrive early enough to eat, but we always try to stop by and this year was no different. There were still around 35 people sticking around when we arrived. Many of them were people I only recognized by face and had no idea what their names were. This year at the party it was probably the most boring year yet. I hardly knew anyone and I am not a kid anymore. Nevertheless, I stayed until the end and we went home. However, my Thanksgiving fun was hardly over.
At a last minute change of heart my mom decided to get a doorbuster TV deal for our living room on Black Friday, tomorrow. She said I could have the old living room TV if I came with her. At 3 AM we stood outside of Target in a light rain for two hours (which in retrospect wasn’t that bad) to get a new 32 inch LCD TV. After two hours of waiting I was in charge of running past all the other shoppers to secure a TV for our family. At five AM the doors open and even though they said no running was allowed I was sprinting along with everyone else. And most importantly I got the TV. So that was my thanksgiving weekend.
