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Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts

Sunday, January 6, 2013

The One with All the Food

The end of last year was so crazy!!  Here's a post I actually did start before Christmas but am just finishing now.  Hopefully the Christmas post will be up soon too!

Justin and I went to Florida for Thanksgiving this year.  I did take the camera but frequently forgot it in the car.  I am so bad at taking pictures!!  Most of the time the pictures would have been me in a food coma anyway.  I'm pretty sure I gained 10 pounds over that weekend!!

We actually had a crazy busy weekend before the holiday trip.  The Friday before Thanksgiving Justin took me to a Vocal Point concert.  That's the all male acapella group from BYU.  They are so good!!  They competed on The Sing Off last year (one of our favorite shows that got cancelled!) so it was fun to see them live.  The next day we went skiing, I went to Grandma's house to finish sewing a baby blanket I was making for Jared and Andrea (somehow I lost track of time and almost didn't finish it in time to take it to FL with us) and then Saturday night the Arizona football team came to visit.  We had student tickets to the game but Justin's friend called and had some extra tickets.  25 rows up on the 40 yard line, awesome!!  Arizona won too which made it even more amazing!!  Love my Cats!!  On Sunday we had dinner with Justin's dad and sister before heading out of town.  I told you it was crazy busy!!

So finally, Sunday night, dinner is over and we are packing.  It's about 11:00 and Justin logs on to check us into our flight.  Then I hear "uh, Cindy- our flight is at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning."  Morning!  As in we need to be at the airport in 8 hours!  Are you kidding?!  Somehow we made it and the good part about the mix-up was we got to Orlando in the early afternoon.  Which gave us time to meet up with Gordon, Jared and Andrea for dinner.  Yay!!  Before we left I gave Andrea the blanket I had just finished.  She and Jared have 3 boys:
Ethan,


Grayson,


and Landon.


And now they're having a girl.  I love how this blanket turned out!


We all went to Gator's Dockside for some tasty wings.  It was all-you-can-eat night and the boys definitely got their money's worth!!!


The after picture actually looks pretty unappetizing huh?



Gordon won.  They brought the wings out by the dozen and he ordered one more plate than everyone else.  I think I had more than 2 plates myself!
 

I think this is where Jared thought all you can eat wings may not have been a good idea :)


The next night Gordon, Justin and I kidnapped Jared from work and took him to the Gator's basketball game.  Justin loves to hit up at least one Florida sporting event while we're out there.


We got there after the 2nd half had already started so we got in for free.


Then we went to The Swamp for dinner.  This was only the second day and I could already feel my waist expanding so I ordered a salad.  It was tasty!




Justin on the other hand ordered this burger called "the Freshman 15."  I think it weighed 15 pounds!!  Look at this thing!


Justin and I love the "most interesting man in the world" commercials so I had to take a picture of this when I saw it.  In the women's restroom!  "Stay thirsty my Gators!"


And for some reason, this is where the pictures end.  We did eat a delicious Thanksgiving at Tia Nancy's house

Justin had this on his phone!

and later Tio Carlos barbecued for us again.  That man can grill!!  Justin and I got the recipe and have tried it once.  It was good but not quite the same.  It may be a while before we try the marinade again.  Just writing this post makes me feel like I just ate a whole turkey by myself!