Thanksgiving Week!

So there hasn’t been much work going on since the last update and it has been quite a nice break. Tuesday night Sam left us to visit his girlfriend and Abby headed out on Wednesday to see her sister, and then there were 9.
Thanksgiving day in Alpaugh was very nice. In the morning we watched the Macy’s Day Parade….(we recently discovered we have basic cable). Then we switched over to football for the day. The entire day the kitchen smelled delicious with all the great dishes being made, that is, until I burnt the rice. But in the end we had a delicious meal with a fantastic turkey, stuffing, sweet potato casserole, cooked vegetables, mashed potatoes, very cheesy broccoli, and pumpkin and pecan pie. It was definitely comparable to past Thanksgiving meals I’ve had. The weirdest part about it was that there were 9 of us opposed to the usual 38 or so.

Kendra's delicious pumpkin and pecan pies!

My feast

After Thanksgiving passed we spent some time sitting around the house, watching movies, playing games. We’ve also gone to Visalia the past 2 days. We organized an ISP at the Visalia Rescue Mission. We split up and helped out at two different thrift stores. We bagged items, organized merchandise, put out new
Christmas items and set up trees! We also got some good shopping in. I was very good about not spending much. I just ended up leaving with some yarn to crochet with. Others have started getting presents for the present exchange we’ll be doing later. We’re all getting small gifts for each other to put in stockings….I need to work on that!
After working the thrift store on Friday we headed over to a movie theatre. Half went to see Harry Potter while the rest of us saw Due Date. I thought it was a pretty good movie, it definitely had it’s funny moments.
Then on Saturday after the thrift store we all went to downtown Visalia and got dinner and sat around a sports bar/restaurant called Steve’s Place. Later a live reggae band started playing and they were super good. They covered Sublime and Pepper and they were pretty awesome!
As of now it’s just another lazy Sunday around the house. We’re all waiting around for Sam and Abby to come back tonight!
Starbucks update: Abby and Sam’s bus got in a wreck. I’m not sure how bad it is but they are alright. We may be waiting longer than initially anticipated.
P.S. I forgot to mention we got a flat tire last night....what a fun time. Then on the way home we also hit a ridiculous fog!!!! It's been eventful.