Sunday, November 25, 9:25 p.m.: Thanksgiving weekend is hours from over. Thanksgiving day was spent in San Antonio with the Fernandes family. They contributed this handsome vegetarian turkey to our potluck dinner. It looked great, and tasted even better!
After dinner, I played X-Box Kinect for the first time. X-Box Kinnect is similar to Wii but without the handheld game controllers. After 30 mintues of playing, I learned that I throw like a girl even when the throwing is simulated. At least I gave everyone a good laugh...
Friday brought Thanksgiving number two, this time with family. And what a lovely family we are.
Saturday was uneventful until around 3:00 p.m., when my aunt pulled a table out of the garage and set it up in a sunny spot on the back porch of the farm house. We covered the table with a sheet, pulled up a bench and some chairs, and sat down to feast on left overs:
This lovely picture was taken before the bees arrived. I think the bees were attracted by our sweet tea. My dad, in an attempt to deter the bees, lit a small fire in a nearby barbecue grill and placed some dry leaves on the fire. At first, a small stream of smoke filled the air and drove away most of the bees. When the leaves burned up and the smoke died down, however, the bees returend. My dad responded by adding even more leaves to the barbecue grill. Within moments, a large cloud of smoke consumed our table. What followed was a comical ten seconds during which everyone made various exclamations and tried to hide their faces; everyone except for my grandma, who appeared unaffected, and my aunt, who stood at the end of the porch yelling commands about turning our heads away from the barbecue grill.
Saturday evening, Chris and I returned to my cousin's house to discover that while we were feasting on smokey leftovers, Doug and/or my Cousin's dog ate two thirds of a toddler sized dress. I suspected that Doug ate the dress because Chris found a clump of dress-colored threads stuck to one of his paws. Doug is proving to be quite the scavenger.
Sunday morning, Chris and I drove to Buda, Texas, to look at a car listed for sale on Craigslist. Prior attempts to purchase a car in the Valley via Craigslist were unsuccessful because apparently, most Craigslist users in the Valley are very shady people. Luckily, Craigslist users in Buda are much more reliable and as a result, we are now the proud owners of a new vehicle.
Driving our new vehicle home was a blast, or it was a blast until Doug began vomiting dress colored liquids. This confirmed my haunch that Doug is a dress eater. After a visit to the only 24 hour animal hospital in the Valley, we arrived home completely exhausted.
In between the vegetarian turkey, the smokey bee dinner, the new car, and my sick, dress-eating dog, I would say I had a pretty average holiday. Happy Thanksgiving!
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What fun!
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