Thanksgiving, Seahawks vs. 49ers and a Go Pro

This year, like the previous years, Thanksgiving has been spent at my aunt and uncle's house in Tumwater.  I invited Trish and Amy to our dinner because Trish felt it might be weird to go over to her inlaw's.  I told her she can do whatever she wanted to and to know that the invite was there.  Ben came off of a fire station shift so he was tired and did manage to get up in time to meet me at the Walmart in Tumwater so we didn't have a gazillion cars in their driveway...especially a giant truck.

We got there about 2:30 after turning around twice earlier.  Trish and Amy were stuck in Lakewood traffic and would arrive as soon as they could.  They ended up getting there not too far after we did.  Meanwhile, Ben and I worked on our turkey arts and crafts and everyone got dinner ready and did some visiting.  I finished mine and then later had to finish Ben's.  I gave mine to Grammie and he gave his to his mom.  Gobble gobble!

As soon as everyone was there, we gorged on food and told some really weird stories...like we always do.  Somehow the conversation always leads to poop or similar to poop.  We always have to remind Grammie to do less talking and more eating.  Historically, she is always the only one still eating when everyone is done.  She tried her hardest but always managed to find something to talk about.  As soon as we all had our fill, we got rid of our plates and such and met in the living room for a birthday party and pictionary.  We were too full for dessert.

It is hard to celebrate birthday's once fall hits so we celebrate them all together during Thanksgiving since we all know most of us will be there.  We celebrated September, October and November birthdays...Grammie, Dad, mom and me.  This year, we recognized Trish, her birthday is also in November and I thought it would be nice to get her a card to make her feel part of the family.  They all went beyond the card.  We sang, opened presents, took pictures and Kevin took video of everything.  We started a rousing game of pictionary while some of us had pie.

Ben and I had this plan to go to Best Buy and purchase a Go Pro because it was $100 cheaper and it included a lot of free accessories.  Why not right?  We all left around 6ish, some of us went home, some of us went home to watch the Seahawk game and some of us went and started our Christmas shopping.  We were suppose to go hang out with Ben's friend Josh but that fell through at the last min.

We got to Best Buy and expected to be disappointed...the doors opened at 5 and we got there about a hour and a half later.  I dropped him off and found a parking spot which turned out to be an awesome parking spot.  I walked in and he already was buying the Go Pro.  We just now own a Go Pro!  I was stoked.  We stayed and chatted with the sales rep for a bit.  Then we wandered the mall a bit and then got bored.  We took our stuff to the car and decided to watch the rest of the Seahawk-49er game at Pints and Quarts.  We had a beer and watched the game with the rest of the people.  The game was actually played pretty good for once.  We held them to only 3 points but should have capitalized on the turnovers with touchdowns instead of field goals.  We got the win on our end with 19.  The rest of the season depends on how we stand at the end....playoffs or not.

Because Josh canceled, we went back into Tumwater and went inside the Walmart just to see how insane it still was.  It was disappointing.  We found a few things just because they were on sale and very discounted.  I bought a new camera tripod because mine broke last spring and you can never have too many $4 sweatpants.  It was only 9 so I followed Ben to Rochester and back to the station.  There, we played Ninja Dice, ate apple pie and drank beer.  It was a nice end to Thanksgiving.  Until next year!

Next Adventure:  South Hill, Orting and the Puyallup River