Thanksgiving

Well, yesterday was Thanksgiving and it was alot more fun than I expected it to be. We woke up (me about 9:30am and Mike about 11:30pm) to a fresh blanket of wetness. It snowed and snowed but the ground is too warm for it to stick. Yea, that won't last long... High today is like 30. Either way, I took a picture using a different color mode on my camera. The only colors are red, the rest is grayscale. Guess that's what happens when Mike sleeps in, I'm bored, and it's too cold to do anything. :)




Oh, and here's a pic of my street with the same sort of effect. The leaves finially fell last/this week and it's so pretty!



We went over to Jim and Barb Castro's house and there were about 20 other people. Oh, we brought Jarrod with us.

Jarrod was kind enough to take some pictures of Mike and I before we left to drive out to their house (40 miles/75 minutes). Out of about 20, here are the best ones... Note that Mike isn't very good at having a "normal" expression.






The drive out wasn't awful but we didn't expect it to take as long as it took. Once we got there, we were welcomed with hugs and kisses (they're Italian, guess it's normal) and then we hung out for a couple hours in eager anticipation for the wonderful food that was being provided.

After dinner, all of the guys jumped up to do the dishes. It was very sweet of them but soon after everything had been collected Barb told them they were welcome to do something else. I think that she was worried that the china would be broken. :)



We went downstairs and played ping pong. I enjoyed playing against Mike and almost beat him once. When more competition came downstairs, though, I retired to a nearby chair to laugh at everyone else.

Mike had been anticipating taking on Tony Falco at ping pong all week.(not to be confused with his son Anthony or grandson little Anthony) Tony won and Mike will not be able to hear the end of it!


They also played Bingo. Barb's dad calls out Bingo at the local McDonalds so it sounded like a real game. It was very funny.



Before we left, Jarrod chose to show off his artistic abilities and draw a picture of David (yes, on the wall) without looking. I was surprised that everything was in the right place--it didn't really look like David though.


It was a great night. We left about 9:00pm to take the long trek home. We expected it to take longer to get back into the city but it only took an hour. Don't really know how that happened because the traffic was very slow.



We played Christmas/Oldies music and the guys sang dumb and were entertaining.

After the long trip home, we rented Pan's Labyrinth and had Jarrod over to watch it. Interesting movie. Doing things with an artist is always interesting because they think so differently... He brought a whole different perspective to the movie and I was like "what?". I guess they think differently... more abstract... odd.

Oh, the blurry pics were taken by my phone... The nice ones were my camera-though my phone doesn't do too bad.