We had an awesome Thanksgiving! After shopping with Jon and Natalie for all the grub, we enjoyed a pleasant night on their couch and floor, respectively. They sure are great to let a couple of college students stay at their place. We headed up to Grandma Robert's the next day and met up with Cyndi and Dave, who got there before us. Here's a picture of them in case you've forgotten who they are.
They're pretty fun. We prepped what we could for the feast the next day, then went to bed with visions of dinner rolls dancing in our heads. Only to wake up to Thanksgiving more! After a fairly uneventful breakfast, and wandering around the house drooling, we sat down to our delicious feast. Seated at the table were:
David, Dave, Nick (Dave's son), Cyndi, Dick, Grandpa Wright, Grandma Roberts, Jon, Natalie, Gage, Amanda. If you're thinking to yourself "HOLY COW THAT'S A GREAT GROUP OF PEOPLE!" well, you're thinking would be correct.
Note to self: don't eat so much stuffing next year.
One of the highlights of the evening was Amanda mastering 'Yankee Doodle' on those crystal goblets that you can run your finger around the rim and make a note. After 20 minutes and an endless number of tries, she gave a successful performance to her mom and Dave. Her mom couldn't quite catch the tune after 3 renditions, but Dave, after hearing the first 3 notes, immediately announced "It's Yankee Doodle!" Props to you Dave. Props to you.
So after the symphony, we all headed over to the theater to watch Hugo. It was a pretty good flick. Good moral, good acting, good message, and great 3D glasses. If you pop out the reflective part afterwards, you own a great pair of hipster glasses. Which apparently was a trend 3 years ago, but really- fashion is what you make of it. Right? Hmmmm. Speaking of fashion, we actually got to meet a live Jedi!
I got her autograph too. It was pretty cool. She used some kind of Jedi mind trick on me, not sure what happened there.
Black Friday is notorious for its early morning shoppers, but we all spit in it's face by sleeping in until 10. Were all the great deals gone? Probably. Did we care? No. What did we do instead? We went shooting!
Dave had brought up his two handguns, two very cool .40s, and also his .22 rifle. There's a shooting range in Murray, so Dave, Nick, Amanda and I went over there to vent some steam and bullets. Imagine two glass sheets to either side, and targets in front of you. That's the shooting range. It was a little disconcerting to see a patch of shattered glass in ours that had obviously come from a bullet. Not sure what happened there... At first we all shot handguns. No one was super amazing as far as accuracy goes, but we all had fun with them. Then Amanda decided to grace us all with her personality that is apparently a dead eye. Once we pulled out the .22, she shot like Annie Oakley. Here's your shot of the target.
Pretty good right? Look at that grouping. Wait- not good enough you say? You could do that you say? Well, let me give you a little perspective on the target.
That's right, at roughly 30 yards Amanda put a grouping of about 2 square inches on a teeny little target. And note the bulls-eye. I think the FBI sniper division has found its next scholarship child.
So overall, Thanksgiving was a blast. The pros? Delicious food, great family, fun shooting, great jokes, and just an overall atmosphere of love. The cons? Getting called Jon 4 times, losing in foosball, overeating, and getting shown up by my fiance in shooting guns.
Until next time folks.
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