Thanksgiving debrief

This Thanksgiving we celebrated at my parents house in Medina. Amber was supposed to work so we couldn't go to my aunt and uncle's lake house with the rest of the Bauman family, but on Thursday morning her shift was cancelled so we got to spend the whole day as the 6 of us (and Bella, their dog.. but she had to stay in the garage. We still visited her a lot!).

It was a fun day of eating appetizers, mixing the cookie dough, reading the paper to find the best deals for Friday's shopping trip, and of course the big Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner we finalized our plans for Friday and Dan headed home (he had to work the next day). On the way he saw Best Buy's parking lot was already FULL of cars ready for them to open at 5 a.m.!! He tipped of my dad and Brent so they weren't disappointed when they went at the planned time of 6 a.m.

The next morning Brent, Amber, and my mom went to Target across the street from my parents house before the doors opened at 6 a.m. but didn't get the tv they were hoping for. I joined them around 6:45 and we stopped at a couple of other home improvement/sports stores and ended the day at the Ridgedale mall. I was very proud of my successful shopping trip and was all done before 10. Brent and my dad were done earlier around 8:30 and my mom and sister wrapped up around 1. That afternoon we were all exhausted and took naps before making cookies. Dan got done with work and we celebrated with a birthday dinner and cake. He was excited to get gift cards from everyone towards a Wii, and a rice cooker. Now if they are ever available in the stores we'll see if he can actually get one!

Brent and Amber bought a projector to use as their tv at their house for Christmas so we tried it out that night on my parents basement wall by watching Oceans 13.

It was a fun Thanksgiving and it was also fun to spend the rest of the weekend with Dan's family. The Vikings game was actually entertaining! Good thing I had a bet with my NY co-workers that the Vikings would cover the spread. It looked like Eli played for our team....