This year for Thanksgiving we traveled to Indiana where my mom was born and raised. It has been years since we have traveled to Indiana for a holiday! Unfortunately, Melissa works in retail and had to work so she had to stay behind and got to dog sit as well. However, I did hear that she had an awesome Thanksgiving lunch with Grandma and Grandpa Bohm.
We left bright and early Wednesday morning, well not bright either. 5 AM and it is dark at that time! However, I was sick on the car ride there. No fun! Dad was laughing about the situation, mom is like whatever, it's normal and Sarah, well Sarah. I can't help it, she was the one who was voluntarily looking if and when I was getting sick. About half way there I started feeling better, thank goodness!
When I saw this bridge, I knew we were close. Only 100 more miles to go!
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We didn't take many pictures from our trip, but here are the few we did take.
Grandma Hession & Uncle Jeff
It's November in Indiana and these 2 have shorts on!
These Pilgrim salt and pepper shakers traveled with us from Georgia. Mom bought these from Publix years ago and no matter where Thanksgiving is, these go with us.
Mom had her pecan picking therapy before work everyday for a couple of weeks so we took them with us to start cracking. We did this for a couple of hours over 2 or 3 days. No wonder why pecans cost so much because it is a lot of work shelling those suckers!
We made 4 or 5 pecan pies! Man were they good!
I must admit besides spending time with family on Thanksgiving day, we had a blast Black Friday shopping with our cousins. Black Friday newbies! However, we actually started at 6:30 PM on Thursday night and got home around 1:30 AM Friday morning.
We had intentions of buying these 700 thread count sheets that we buy every year at Wal-Mart on Black Friday and the 2 Wal-Marts we went to were out. Not because they sold out, but because the truck did not deliver that pallet! We were able to find my Grandma a set though because she has a full size bed and that was the only size left with only a few on the shelf.
Okay, so northern slang and southern slang are 2 completely different languages so our cousins were able to keep us entertained and laughing all night long. It started out with "buggies." They call it a shopping cart and we call it a buggy! They could not stop laughing and made jokes all night long. Now I just have to find a miniature shopping cart / buggy and I will be mailing one to them with the word buggy on it! They definitely won't forget this trip!
We came home Sunday and like before, we left early. This time it was 4:30 AM. Because we left so early, Sarah and I were out in no time and when I woke up, we were half way home. Now that's the way to do it! Eight, eight and half hours later, were pulling back into mom and dad's driveway.
We had a great Thanksgiving this year and really enjoyed spending time with our family in Indiana!
