Flashback to Thanksgiving

Alright so since this was our first Thanksgiving in Michigan I feel like I need to write it down even though it's been 3 months.

Thanksgiving this year (2013) was very different from the Thanksgivings we are used to.  To start off we were going from one celebration to the next, so we ate a lot less food this year.  Which also meant that we weren't surrounded by our families.  In fact Thanksgiving day for us was kind of weird.  We ended up needing to run to the grocery store to buy a couple of things non-Thanksgiving related, which felt so weird shopping on the holiday.  We then ended up having hot pockets and mashed potatoes for dinner.  Talk about lame and pretty funny all at the same time.

 Luckily though we had a real Thanksgiving dinner to go to the next day.  Well I thought it was going to be dinner but found out a couple of hours before that the "dinner" was actually an early lunch.  Yikes.  Needless to say my plans of baking a pie went out the window and costco came to the rescue with their delicious pumpkin pie.  Mmmm.  So this dinner was with our friends and their family.  We were kind of the odd balls out not knowing anyone other than Ryan and Jess and we sat at the extra table with just Ryan cause there wasn't room on the big table but that's ok.  We got to know the others a little bit and had a good day.  The food was delicious and we enjoyed ourselves.

Oh I almost forgot.  Chase had a corvette over the holiday and because we got a nice snow storm on Thanksgiving day we were a little stranded at home because both the corvette and Chase's car didn't have snow tires and my car was locked up in GM's parking lot.  Ooops.  That's alright though because the rest of the time we had the car the roads weren't slick so we were able to have some fun driving it.  I even got to drive it and I felt so cool :) haha

So that was our 2013's Thanksgiving in a quick rundown :)

Michigan and Winter

I'm not one to complain about winter, because honestly I love all of the seasons.  However living out in Michigan I'm getting really sick of winter.  I want warmer weather so that I can be outside soaking up the sunshine.  I'm tired of hibernating and hardly seeing the sun (the sun seems to be always hidden behind a gray sky)! I feel this way because I feel like there is nothing to do during the winter in Michigan.  Yeah sure I could go skiing on their bunny hill, if I wanted to drive a few hours north.  Maybe I could've bought myself a pair of ice-skates since the great lakes are 92% frozen.  Speaking of frozen lakes, maybe I could've gone ice fishing, but in all honesty though non of those sound fun!  They don't appeal to me and quite frankly I haven't wanted to be outside in the negative temperatures this winter.  What I'm trying to say without offending my new state is that it's a boring winter state.  Plus it doesn't help when we ask people who are from Michigan on what to do during winter and they can't tell us anything, (unless of course we want to drive a few hours north).  Needless to say Michigan you and I are starting to get on bad terms, so you better bring warm weather and sunshine my way so that we can get back on good terms.