Thanksgiving

For the holiday, my sister and I went to our brother's place, as we typically do for Thanksgiving.

We had German turkey, which is baked with bacon over the top and stuffed with a ground beef based stuffing containing apples and cranberries. On the side we had spicy yams (my sister's contribution), mashed potatoes and gravy, baked leeks/onions/carrots, brussel sprouts (which I both tried and discarded for the first time), and potato rolls. My sister-in-law made really good cranberry sauce as well. After dinner, we ate apple pie, which I "made" which my sister helped me prepare for time constraints and later baked by my sis-in-law.

It was a later-than-usual dinner. We left a lot later than planned but we saw something really interesting on the way back up. At about midnight, we passed the Outlet stores. We couldn't believe our eyes. There was at least 3 miles of traffic backed up in both directions trying to get to the mall. It was truly a spectacle. The parking lot was packed and I heard from someone later that there was nothing to buy because there were soooo many people there you could barely even get in any stores.

I never understood the depriving ones self of sleep in order to get "deals" that hardly even exist.