Thanksgiving Weekend

I am a little late on my posting, but here is a synopsis of our Thanksgiving weekend.

After sitting through 5 hours of lecture on Wednesday morning, Mike and I hurried home from New Jersey and loaded the car. We left our house at 1:45 (our goal was to be on the road by 2:00, so not too bad), but still had to take the cat to the vet for boarding. The vet is clear opposite the interstate and they were super busy, so we did not actually touch the interstate until 3:00! Then we crawled along the turnpike with all the other holiday traffic. Once we got further out of the city, we picked up some speed. Overall, with a bit of traffic and bad weather we made it to Ohio in about 7 hours (not our best time, but decent).

We got into Ohio and had yummy meatball sandwiches, which were great because we were starving. We visited with everyone at Mike's Dad's house and then left to get to his sister Chrissy's (where we were sleeping that weekend). The best comment of the night was when his youngest sister Cara declared that Mocha was not the "real Mocha". She thought her tail was too short and that she was not acting like herself. In Mocha's defense, she had just traveled 7 hours, vomited 4 times (she gets car sick), and had not had dinner yet. I am not sure what to say about the tail.

Chrissy's apartment is soo nice, we were very jealous of its space and newness. She has two bedrooms, so we were able to really make ourselves at home. It was really great to spend the weekend there with her. We enjoyed seeing where she lives and just having the time in the car and at home to visit with her.

Thanksgiving was spent with the usual tasks of cooking, eating, cleaning, visiting, and eating some more. We had 12 people around the table and tons of great food. Aunt MaryAnne made Italian Wedding Soup, it was very good. Also, Thanksgiving fell on Mike's birthday this year (he was born on Turkey Day, too) so we celebrated his day with carrot cake and presents. He received some great gifts and was very happy to be able to celebrate with his family.

Friday and Saturday we shopped. I got almost all my Christmas shopping done. The crowds were not as bad as I was expecting and so I was able to take care of a good amount of my list. I think I will only need one more trip to complete it. On Friday night we also went to a Cleveland Cavaliers NBA game. It was a fun time made even better because I got to eat wings!

The weekend was a great one, we always love to be around family. The time passed too quickly and before we knew it we were back on the road. We left at 6:15 on Sunday morning hoping to be home by lunch and be able to pick Sam up from the vet. Unfortunately, once we got up into the PA mountains we hit sleet, snow, and rain. The roads were in bad condition and were closed for 2 hours. There were a lot of accidents along the road and we had to drive extra cautiously. We ended up getting home in 9 hours (our worst time ever), not being able to get the cat or attend any church meetings. We basically came home, unpacked, ate a quick dinner and crashed in front of the tv.