Thanksgiving

Not much good can be taken away when you spend holidays close to 1200 miles apart from your family. So we try to make the best of it. A small dinner, just for two this year, followed up by a night with some friends. That's it. That was our Thanksgiving. Who needs a big dinner when one can be cooked in just a couple of hours?
It was so tasty. And relaxing. While in high school and college, we had two dinners for holidays. It sounds great doesn't it? Well it was for the first couple of times. And then it just got awful. There was so much food. I felt the only way to prepare for those dinners was to fast for three days before hand. And then there was the time factor. How much time needed to be spent at each house, before the meal and after. No one wants to eat and run. By the time college rolled around, we had it all down to a science. Complete with mental spreadsheets. At the end of a big holiday meal, all anyone wants to do is sit around, have one more beer, and slip into a coma for the next few days.