Thanksgiving went pretty well this year. I worked from 5am to 10am Thanksgiving morning and then we headed straight down to Steffie's mom and dad's place.

Mmmm ... Steffie's mom made dressing and the yummy jello dessert I liked so much last year. It was all very tasty. After eating we chatted with everyone there for a while. I got to meet another of Steffie's sisters, Traci, and her husband and son. There are two more sisters I haven't met yet, Amanda and Trisha. Hopefully I'll get to meet them at the next family holiday or get together. I got to meet Karen's little girl too. Last time I saw Karen she was still pregnant. Lots of people there. It was really nice. Everyone was really friendly.

Steffie's family likes to do card games and board games after the holiday dinner. I learned two new games while I was there. We played a card game called Five Crowns that is very similar to Phase 10 if you've ever played that. There are 13 rounds and each round a different card is wild. Your goal is to eliminate as many of your cards as you can by grouping them in at the least groups of 3 such as three 7's and a run of hearts 3, 4, and 5. If you get to eliminate all of your cards your score for the round is zero. Any you don't eliminate you count up the points remaining and that is your score. Whoever has the lowest score at the end of the last round ends. The other game I played for the first time was RISK the board game. I've played a couple times on the computer, but I'd never played the board game. Steffie and her dad and sister and neice and nephew played, and they were all really patient about showing me how to play. I didn't do horribly either. I wasn't the first to go out, so I was happy. And Steffie conquered the world. *giggles* It was lots of fun.

We found out that Steffie's other sister Trisha will be down for Christmas later this month, but it happens to be the same weekend that we are having our tribe christmas. So, we won't be down for it. We'll have to make sure to go down and visit next time she's down this way or maybe make a trip to Chicago sometime to visit.

After we finished the risk game and chatted a bit more, we headed over to Cass and William's for the night. I was sooo sleepy. I had been up since fourish that morning. It was a really good day though. The next day, Friday, Cass invited Tori over and we played hours and hours of Dungeons and Dragons. I got to play a half elf warlock. She has awesome powers too! I didn't my troop killed or myself killed, and I did manage to help out the other players with my characters powers. It was lots of fun.

Another super late night for me Friday night. We didn't get into bed til after 1:00 am. Saturday we got up and had breakfast with Cass and William, did a bit of shopping (I got Steffie some cute ruffly panties at Torrid), and headed home just in time to watch White Christmas on tv. It was a very very good holiday weekend.