In celebration of Thanksgiving, we put on a potluck a couple days before Thanksgiving. It was the most unconventional Thanksgiving feast I've ever had from sushi rolls to lumpia and German brats to pumpkin pie. My coworkers love bringing food and we no matter how well we plan, we never seem to have enough food tables set out for all the goodies people bring.
We had an amazing turnout including a few board members even joining us. Here are some pics from the event:
 |
| Some of our decorations |
 |
| Posing on the "Thankful" wall that we misspelled and then tried to make up for it by adding in a K and making it look like a turkey. |
 |
| Me and my co-worker Diane and partner in crime on the social committee |
 |
| Yes, I'm Thanful for many things :) |
 |
| The foods posters trying to guide people which section their food belongs in |
 |
| More centerpieces |
 |
| Some of the social committee |
 |
| A picture of the top of the funeral potatoes I brought and were a big hit |
 |
| My slideshow |
 |
| Diane and Isabel |
 |
| Filling up our plates |
 |
| Diane, Isabel, Christine (who was the mastermind of this year's Thanksgiving potluck, me and Sue |
About halfway through my first plate of food, my stomach started feeling uneasy and I hardly made it through much more. Sadly something I ate did not agree with me and although I never ended up throwing up, I took the next couple days off at home due to feeling like I was going to vomit at any minute. Oh the joys of potluck!
By the time Thanksgiving actually came around, I was still recovering and probably ate less on Turkey Day than ever before. Matt and I headed up to his Grandma's house in Walnut Creek and had lunch with Grandma, his Uncle Ridge, Aunt Linda and his cousin JJ.
As we were driving up to Grandma's parking lot, we were fortunate to see this gang of wild turkeys strutting around as if this wasn't indeed Turkey Day! It was amazing! I made Matt stop the car so I could take some pics.
After eating, we took a nice brisk, walk to try to not fall asleep. Matt also spent some time helping his Grandma with her computer questions. Then we headed off to Fairfield to try to catch the end of my family's dinner and festivities at my parent's church building.
By the time we got there, most people were gone but we did get to witness Bo, Seth and Josh in the gym not actually playing basketball, but chucking the basketballs as far as possible down the court while yelling at the top of their lungs. I'm not sure how it came to this but I felt like I was watching The Gladiator or a Michael Jackson video or something. Nothing in my family is ever normal :)
I almost fell over laughing so hard watching them grunting and throw, especially because Seth never actually yelled but instead did some kind of little "yip-yip" yell.
Matt rallied them all to shoot hoops but eventually joining in our their basketball chucking game, though he also did not do the yelling. But he agreed that it was quite fun.
We spent the night at my parents and my mom and I hit up the malls the next day for some Black Friday shopping though we have learned our lesson about trying to participate in the crazy morning hours. We had a blast in the late morning hours when most people had already gone home.
