My Thanksgiving Break :)

To start my Thanksgiving break off, I went to my boyfriend Joshua's house for four days. We packed up his car and left at 3:30 PM on Friday. We arrived to the little town of Ossian where his parent's house was around 4:45 PM. His dad was already home watching football on TV and we unloaded and waited around until his mom got home so we could eat dinner. We ordered pizza from Caseys and chilled the rest of the night. Nothing too exciting happened at his house because we took these four days to just relax from school and the cross country season. Saturday morning,  Josh and I woke up to watch our women's team run at nationals online. It was a disappointing day because our girls were ranked in the top 5 without our number one girl running and we ended up getting 11th! I do not know what happened and I am planning on asking what happened because only one girl on the team ran like she should have. Everyone else had an extremely bad race. I hope this never happens again and we can win a national title next year!
   That Sunday was Josh's dad's side Thanksgiving! There were about 30 to 40 people at this gathering and everyone brought a dish and dessert of some sort. There was so much food that I ate way more than I should have. On Monday Josh and I went to Decorah to see the new Hunger Games movie, "Catching Fire". It was really good, but the ending was a cliff-hanger. We both wanted to see this movie and "Delivery Man", but we both don't really have the time or the money. Tuesday we ate Happy Joe's pizza before leaving to drive back to Wartburg to get my car. We switch all our stuff in my car and I drove to my house that night.
   It took about an hour and a half before we got to my house around 9 PM. My dogs were ecstatic to see me and the new person I brought home.
    The next day, Josh and I slept in, made pancakes for breakfast and just chilled until I had to go to work at 5. I was scared of leaving him all alone with my family especially with my sister Chloe because she can be a lot to handle. After I got home from work, I saw him sitting on the couch looking upset. Chloe was way to much to handle and was constantly picking on him, bugging him or asking him questions.  I was really upset about this especially because I wanted him to stay here at my house.
   Thursday, Thanksgiving day, my mom and I cooked all morning. We were just going to eat our meal as a family this year and not go to anybody's house. This whole day we just ate and chilled around. Usually I run the 7.5 mile Turkey Trot in Dubuque, but I have a stress fracture in my knee so this is the first year in 5 years where I have not won my family a turkey. I was pretty upset about this, but everything happens for a reason.    Thursday night, Josh and I went Black Friday shopping in American Eagle and Target and then went to IHOP for pancakes. When we got back to my house we sat in the Soft tub (smaller, cheaper version of a hot tub).  Friday, My family, Josh, and I volunteered at the Rescue Mission and then went to East Dubuque to cut down our tree for Christmas. It is a tradition in my family every year to do this. Afterwards, we shopped at TJ Maxx for Christmas gifts and went home to relax.
    Saturday, I woke up and worked 12-8 so Josh just hung out with my family. When I got home we chilled around and did some homework and went to bed. We plan on coming home tomorrow early so we make brunch, but who knows!