The Thanksgiving holiday weekend was pretty jam packed with activities. I’m back at work and I’m just exhausted!

I avoided the major shopping areas on Friday, opting for doing some simple Christmas decoration shopping at Menard’s and then later at Target, which wasn’t as packed and crazy as I thought it would be.

Later Friday night, we headed out to Dan’s 30th birthday party that his mom was throwing for him. She decided to revert him back to his childhood and have a kiddie party. We played a bunch of games, like the Bozo bucket game, hula hoops, that almost impossible ball and paddle thing where the ball is attached to the paddle with elastic and you have to bounce it of, etc. It was tons of fun. Later on we watched ‘Old School’ back at the Landlord’s pad on the 108 inch projector screen, courtesy of a Martha Stewart blanket.

Saturday we did a bit more shopping and hung at Dave’s parents for a bit. Later on we went to Trully and Irio’s tree trimming party. What is a tree trimming? When you’re too lazy to decorate your own tree and you use y our relatives for slave labor, promising food and libations in return. OK, I’m kidding - Trully put a lot of the ornaments up there herself. And the food and libations were awesome. Irio made this great Brazilian wine drink that had wine, lemons, sinnamon and apples all heated together on the stove (I’m not sure if those are the actual ingredients, but I’m guessing), topped of with a mixture of whipped egg and sugar. Sounds gross, but it tastes awesome - almost like warm apple milk. Just be careful not to inhale the alcohol infused fumes!

We got our fill of food (I even made my now famous bruschetta) and watched a buttload of holiday movies. After several rounds of 20 questions (since they had no boardgames for us to play) and a brief food coma induced nap, we went home with our candy filled goodie bags, all ready for the holidays.

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Sunday, headed out to Madison for some short track fun. More on that later, once I process my pics!

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