Thanksgiving and Black Friday

We had a great Thanksgiving. Both of our families met up in Frankenmuth for a German Thanksgiving feast at Bavarian Inn. Although it was a little ridiculous how long we had to wait AFTER having reservations. We didn't eat until 8:45 (our reservations were at 7). We went to the Frankenmuth shops, while waiting, and there were cute souvenirs and even German wine tasting. Once we were seated, we were able to eat, drink, and be merry. I ordered a raspberry daiquiri that had a ton of seeds in it. Luckily my mom switched with me and so I ended up with a strawberry daiquiri. I had a raspberry daiquiri before, but it was made with raspberry syrup, which is much better. We all ordered chicken and/or turkey dinners and the sides were really good. We had coleslaw, pasta salad, cranberries, stuffing, butternut squash, mashed potatoes and gravy, buttery noodles, and even pickled beets. I had to try a beet and it wasn't bad, but definitely not something I would specifically order. Our meals also included homemade ice cream.

Today I wanted to avoid all the craziness that is shopping. I decided to take advantage of all the Black Friday deals online, which are just as good, especially when there's free shipping involved. We got a lot of xmas shopping done, but I wasn't able to avoid the shopping madness on walmart.com. Their website does not know how to handle many customers at once, which I think is ridiuclous seeing how they could anticipate a high volume today and every other website such as target, amazon, toys r us, etc. seemed to have already mastered this. It took us a few HOURS to checkout, but we weren't giving up because the deals were so good. Perhaps Walmart will join the 21st century and fix their website in the future.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I am very thankful to have a great family, both the Guptas and Hersteins.

UM vs OSU

It was sad to hear about Bo's death. I didn't know who he was growing up since I had no affiliation with UofM, but after getting to college it was hard not to know who he was. He was talked about almost weekly at football games and you couldn't help but wonder why they would name a campus building "Schembechler Hall." And what an ironic time to pass, right before the huge UM/OSU game today. We're going to Brian's to watch it in HD. I can never tell the difference between HD and regular TV, but Matt says it's really obvious to him after watching HD for a whole summer in Boston a few years ago and then not having it when he came home. I really hope it's a good game, meaning we win. I don't like how OSU is favored to win :(
Sidenote: My new favorite facebook group title(although I didn't join) is called "I will go slightly out of my way to step on that crunchy leaf." TOO FUNNY