Thanksgiving in Boston!

Now that our long Thanksgiving break is coming to an end, it is time to get back to reality, unfortunately. We have spent the past few days sleeping late, hanging out with friends, and eating way too much food. We are spoiled and it is going to be hard to go back to school/work tomorrow. I could get used to this kind of life, that is for sure.

While spending our first Thanksgiving away from family was a little sad, we were able to spend it with two of our very good friends here in Boston, Teal and Laren Carlock. We are very thankful to have them as friends and were excited to spend Thanksgiving with them. Even though I had my fears, our Thanksgiving meal turned out to be wonderful! Chris and I made my Grandmother's ham, Jo's dressing (no, not stuffing), rice, green beans and chocolate pie while the Carlocks provided the turkey, candied yams, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie. We had way too much food for four people so we all ate it several times throughout the weekend. Our refrigerator is still packed with food.

After our big meal, we spent the afternoon playing the Wii. Later in the evening, we made our way to Abbey and Luke Fuszard's for dessert. Abbey had picked up pumpkin pie and apple pie. Laren and I were too stuffed to eat, so Teal and Chris ate some for us. While there, we got to watch the end of Home Alone, which is a great way to kick off the holiday season.

Thanksgiving in Boston was a lot of fun and it certainly was an adventure to cook all of the food ourselves, but we do look forward to spending next Thanksgiving in Georgia with family and friends.

Now, onto the crazy part of the weekend.....I had mentioned earlier in the week to Teal and Laren that the outlets were going to be opening at midnight on Thanksgiving. I thought it would be somewhat of an adventure to go shopping in the middle of the night but upon recommendation from Kim McWhorter, I decided that I would be okay waiting until a few days after Black Friday. Well, the Carlocks seemed really excited about Midnight Madness, so we decided to make our way down to Wrentham, which is 45 minutes from Boston, around midnight. We had no idea what we were in for. We got within 2 1/2 miles from the exit for the outlets and traffic came to a standstill. I would say that it probably took us at least 30 minutes to make it to the exit but there was no possible way that we could get off at the exit. We proceeded to the next exit where we turned around to try the other side of the exit. It wasn't much better. Needless to say, our midnight outlet shopping trip was nothing more than driving to Wrentham and turning around, lol! Next time someone suggests the Midnight Madness event, I can give them a first hand account of reasons not to go.

We did end up getting some shopping in on Friday at the Natick Mall and at the Wrentham Outlets, much later than our original trip. The outlets were much more tame when we arrived at 7 pm. I honestly didn't buy a thing but Chris did find a few things at J.Crew. I am glad that we experienced the craziness that was Midnight Madness but I spent the rest of the weekend trying to recover from our late night drive.

The rest of our weekend was spent doing a lot of resting, watching Georgia Tech beat UGA for the first time since my freshman year in college, and buying a Christmas tree, which we plan to decorate tonight. I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving with friends and family! Now, we can look forward to the Christmas season!