Thanksgiving In St. Louis - Day 5: Thanksgiving! Kind Of.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Thanksgiving in St. Louis has finally arrived. Just kidding! On Thanksgiving Steve's family goes to their in-laws. Then they all get together on Friday for their Thanksgiving celebration. Mike and Sheila and their kids had just come into town the night before from Kentucky. Our two families spent the day together. First we went to see Arthur's Christmas in 3D. Then we went to where else for our Thanksgiving feast, but Jack-in-the-Box. It is where we had our Christmas dinner last year when we were in the St. L. We wanted to keep with tradition. And it was the only place open. And we don't have Jack-in-the-Box where we live so that makes it extra special. Except they were out of everything we wanted to order. We just kept going down the list until we found something they had.

Steve and Mike watched the Cowboy's game on Steve's phone

After our Thanksgiving Day Feast, we all went back to Steve and Heather's house. The girls had a plan. Dan. We were going to camp out at Walmart. Heather, Lisa, Samantha, Sheila, Sierra, Rhonda and I got our game faces on and headed over to Walmart around 6pm. We left all the kids at home unsupervised, uh, I mean with the dads who were playing their war game. Again. So yeah, unsupervised.

What we wanted went on sale at 10pm and then other things at 12am. What we all wanted, there were only 26 or 36 of them in the whole store, I can't remember. And they were giving out numbers to people. We all thankfully got a number. Even though we had a number, we had to wait in line and if we had to leave the line we had to sign out and we could only take two 15 minute bathroom breaks before we had to sign ourselves back in. What we were getting was that good. Let me just tell ya. I can't wait for Christmas to be here. Sheila, Rhonda, Sierra and I were all camped out for the big thing while Heather was camped out in another spot ready to grab a whole bunch of stuff I can't say right now. Lisa and Samantha also were camped out between certain items. They had checked out the supply of what we all wanted and had their game plan as to what they were going to grab first and then where they were going next. I think that those of us camped out in the Pharmacy department had it pretty easy compared to everyone else. Here we are playing Skip-bo with our friend Brian, who we met while sitting on the floor at Walmart. We also played several rousing games of farkle to pass the time.

I wish I had been able to take a picture of everyone else who was with us. Here is a picture of the area poor Heather was in. I took this picture after we got our item. It was CRAZY!

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