Thanksgiving in my family is an all day event(like all of our holidays). We arrived at my aunt and uncle's house around 1:30 and put out the appetizers right away. Our family rolled in over the next hour, with more snacks arriving with each family. Thirty people is a lot of people, but food for thirty people on Thanksgiving is a TON of food. We all munched throughout the afternoon, until 4:02, when we sat down for dinner. The actual sit down dinner only lasted twenty-four minutes, but I ate for about three hours that day. My Thanksgiving selection included turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, peas, squash, and pumpkin bread. I have never been a big fan of stuffing, so I skipped out. Because my family is so large, we typically have to eat at at least two different tables(when I was a little kid we ate around a table cloth while sitting on the floor), and we separate by age(or marital status). This Thanksgiving, I was at the under thirty table, with my other cousins and one second cousin. After dinner we took our traditional walk while a few who didn't want to brave the cold stayed behind to clean up a bit. We walked to the local high school where my parents and aunts and uncles went to high school. My uncle joked that we should do laps, and we actually did, but we only did one, and it certainly wasn't a race. After we returned to the house, we had a Just Dance competition on the Wii. It was requested my sister and I compete to the song Rockafeller Skank, surprisingly, I beat my sister. After my cousin won the competition, we braked for dessert. I had a piece of my mom's famous baklava. After dessert we played Scene It and complained about how full we were.
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