Thanksgiving we woke up late and watched football until lunch was ready (lunch at 3pm, great huh?). We had smoked and fried turkey, beans with bacon, sweet potato, gravy (though it's WAY different from gravy back home), the best mashed potato I've ever tasted, cranberry sauce, curried eggs and this sweet potato desert mixed with brown sugar with marshmallows on top. Lunch was great because we sat around eating and talking. That day we met Nathan and Jacob's sister Suzanne and her girlfriend Talisha, and had some great laughs with everyone (I'll put some videos up later but pictures are on FaceBook)! We then sat around watching football until we went out and tried to play football with 6 of us. Unfortunately we were very full so it didn't go so well. After that we had to go to the airport to pick up Amber and Courtney. When Nathan and I got there we looked at the board and realised that there were no flights coming from Orlando which is where they said they were flying in from. Turns out they were flying in from Chicago. When they arrived Nathan embarrassed Amber by presenting her with an eggplant (her nickname). We went home (after Nathan got lost) and played Apples to Apples. Logan and I gave out the presents we'd taken with us so it was a bit like Christmas. Everyone loved the Pineapple Lumps, Jaffas, Minties and especially the Crunchies we'd brought over with us.
Friday came and we didn't sleep. Instead we headed out at about 2am to WalMart where Courtney brought me a Nerf gun (EXCITING stuff!) and we got a few other little bits and pieces. Nathan headed off and joined the other guys while we went to Kholes. I got some good deals and saved nearly $50! While Courtney and Amber napped in the car I joined the guys in waiting outside a sports shop much like Rebel Sports. The doors opened at 5am and we got paintball games and some other wee bits and bobs. We finally got home at 6am and crashed.
When we woke up we sat around talking and watching more football. Just before dinner was ready Courtney and Amber helped me to make a pavlova. It turned out really good apart from the small part that collapsed because the oven got bumped. Because we had no kiwifruit or chocolate chips we put cream on it and Hershey's chocolate sauce. Everyone loved it which was awesome! When the boys came home from work Charlie arrived and we sat around talking before heading out to the woods in the early hours of the morning to play paintball. It was weird playing in the dark and somewhere where you didn't know but it was lots of fun!
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