Dear God. I didn’t think that much food existed in the world. I should have taken pictures of it all because I don’t think you all will believe me when I tell you it was more food than I’ve ever seen before in my LIFE. We had our Thanksgiving with friends at their house and the sheer volume of food was just incredible. It brings a tear to my eye to remember it all. First off, there was snacks. Veggie trays, fruit trays, seven-layer dips, salsa, french onion dip, deep fried sausage pockets and these egg roll things that I was assured were fantastic but I didn’t try. Of course, then I noticed all the Hornsby’s. If you aren’t familiar, Hornsby’s is a hard cider. It’s alcoholic and quite possibly my favorite alcoholic drink ever (next to margaritas and appletinis, of course). And there was SCADS of it. And I could have NONE of it. I consider that tantamount to torture. I’m sure I could have easily finished off an entire six-pack on my own had I been able. I LOVE that stuff.
Anyhow, there was plenty to eat even before the dinner was rolled out. And oh. The dinner. First, there was a 25 pound turkey. Have you ever seen a 25 pound turkey? They’re ENORMOUS. I swear, the thigh on this thing was bigger altogether than the turkey we had for Thanksgiving last year. And instead of getting all dried out, it stayed moist which is a true testament to our friend’s cooking abilities. But that wasn’t all. We also had a 2 pound barbecued tri-tip that was marinated in something absolutely fantastic and I swear this stuff melted in your mouth. It was SO GOOD. But that wasn’t it. No, we also had a giant spiral-cut ham too. THREE kinds of meat. Then there were two kinds of potatoes, cranberry sauce (the jellied kind), fruit salad, fruit salad with whipped cream in it, some sort of fluffy green jello sort of thing, cheese and broccoli casserole, cheesy zucchini and corn casserole, stuffing, homemade rolls with homemade honey butter, and gravy. Can you picture this? All this for 8 adults and 7 kids (two of whom are babies and only one of those babies ate even a tiny bit of the food). So there were some serious leftovers. And I didn’t even mention the PIES. Oh dear god. We had pumpkin (of course!), blackberry and blueberry, apple, coconut cream, and chocolate cream. All homemade. All with homemade whipped cream. Liam was a huge fan of this whipped cream and the pumpkin pie. I nearly blew up from all the food I ate.
We had a great time. It was so much fun to hang out with people instead of being by ourselves. Even though we had to constantly chase Liam out of the Hornsby’s (a kid after my own heart). Harry had a great time and we barely saw him the whole day. After dinner we all played on the Wii, which was great fun as always. I somehow ended up in 4th place playing bowling which is just awful. It was so much fun. We went home with big smiles on our faces. And then I collapsed in a heap and entered a turkey coma.
We had a “plan” to go shopping at 7 this morning. I had seen a Kohl’s ad that showed boots (just like the boots I want!) on sale for $17, from their original price of $65. Since I’m a mere shadow of myself without boots, I had to have them. Imagine my surprise when I woke up not with the alarm at 6:30 as I was expecting, but at 7:30 with sunlight streaming through the window. It took me another 20 minutes to convince Kile to get up. And then we had to have breakfast. And then Kile had to shower. So it was 9:30 before we got to Kohl’s. And yeah, there were no boots left in my size. Dangit. So that sorta put a damper on things. I really wanted those boots.
We also called one of the ultrasound places in town to check their prices (the other place was closed). It’s $100 for a 2-D gender determination and $200 for a 3-D/4-D ultrasound. DAMN, I would like to do it. I want to find out SO BAD. But $100 just before Christmas? I can’t forsake presents for this. If I was a cheesier sort of person, I’d set up donations on the blog here for a gender ultrasound. But, that’s incredibly cheesy and other people have Christmas looming too! Plus, much as you all are kind and express your anxiousness to find out along with me, I doubt you care as much as I do about finding out. Shoot, I doubt ANYONE cares as much as I do about finding out. I guess it’ll have to wait until at least January.
You have no idea how much this is killing me.
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Michelle 11.25.07 at 6:05 am
At least it sounds like I would have recognized all those food items. And at least you had potatoes! A southern Thanksgiving (at least the one I just attended) has some mighty suspicious food items, AND no potatoes. NONE!!!
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