Thanksgiving & Black friday

Thanksgiving was pretty decent. We had a nice family dinner with my mom, dad, brother, eldest nephew Nathan, our boys, Brad, and myself. Mom and I cooked the dinner, and everything turned out delicious!

The night before Thanksgiving I had gone to bed late though, and had to drink coffee through out the day to stay awake. I was sooo tired! Of course I knew ahead of time that I was going out later that night to go shopping with all of the other crazy people for black Friday sales. So in the past few days I have had a total of maybe 5 hours of sleep...and that is pushing it.

Thanksgiving night Brad and I left at about 9:50 and when we arrived at the toy store (that didn't open until midnight!!) there was a line wrapping around the store. Here I had thought we'd be close to the front of the line, but boy was I wrong! It really was awful though.. it was raining hard, and freeezing cold. If it hadn't have been for the rain and the horribly cold wind it wouldn't have been to horrible waiting outside for an hour and a half. Instead I was soaked to the bone, and ended up having to leave Brad by himself while I went and warmed up in our car. Brad had worn a jacket... not me! I guess I wasn't thinking and only wore a sweatshirt. Luckily I did find one of Brads fleece sweatshirts in our trunk and threw that on as well. Then went and stood in line again with Brad. Once inside the store it was total kayos. I had to put my hand behind my back to shield myself from people running me over with carts. People are totally insane on black Friday. If everyone would calm down, and not run around and push and shove like crazy people it wouldn't be so hectic. In the end, we only got half of the things on our list. Like so many, we were attempting to get the Zhu Zhu pets. Of course they handed out tickets to only the first 100 people, and we probably were back in the two, three hundreds. Oh well I guess.

Well anyway I am getting ready to finally try and get some sleep. I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.