Thanksgiving break was about 2 weeks ago and boy was it a great one. My plans for the break were to go to my cousins house in Phoenix and have Thanksgiving dinner with her and her husband. For my other days off I planned on hanging out her house, checking out Phoenix and also visiting one of my friends from home that became a nanny in Phoenix. Well...lets just say there was a change of plans after I found someone who was going to be driving through Utah during the break. But only a couple of people knew that I had devised a new plan. Those people being, my sister and brother-in-law and the cousin who I had planned on staying with. In the middle of planning out my mischief, I called my sister and brother-in-law and asked if they could help me out. My new plan was to drive with a friend up through Utah (He was headed to Oregon) and my sister would pick me up in Salt Lake and I would stay with them until Thanksgiving day. I just so happened that Thanksgiving dinner was set to be at my sisters house. Perfect. Like I said only certain people knew of my visitation home. So obviously my parents had no idea and being sly like I am, I had them convinced I was still going to Phoenix. It would be a great surprise to them and my siblings to see me home.
My friend David and I decided that we would leave early Tuesday morning. Early being 3:30a.m. I thought 3:30 wouldn't come soon enough. I didn't sleep at all Monday night. Seriously I didn't. I was awake up until we left and only slept at most, thirty minutes the whole drive. The whole 12 hourish drive... The drive seemed forever. It is a lot of looking at nothing. Many stops at gas stations to fill up and relieve ourselves. Switching radio stations every five minutes because of static, and trying to entertain ourselves. I was never so happy in my life to drive into Provo and see traffic. I called my sister and we decided on a spot to make the exchange of persons and luggage.
I was so happy to arrive at my sister's house. Sitting in a car for too long can cause you to go crazy. Plus it was good to actually have a home cooked meal and some good sleep. My nephew and I got to spend some quality time together. I never got tired of hearing him say, "Hey Loni." He is super cute. I have to stay on the top of the best aunt list too.
Thanksgiving day was a wonderful day. I had the perfect plan for making my surprise entrance. When the time drew nearer of my family's arrival, I hid myself in my nephew's room in the back. Once everyone was comfortable and settled in my brother-in-law would act like he was going into the garage and I would sneak out of the room and follow him. I would then walk to the front door and ring the doorbell. My brother-in-law would answer the door and say, "Did someone order a pizza?" After confusing my family, I would then walk in and see the confused looks on everyone's face. Perfect plan right? Well...it sorta got ruined. My sister made awesome little turkey place settings for each of us. There were also papers that had our names on them...I also had one. My sister came back to the room I was in and said, "You might as well come out, I already ruined it. They saw your place setting." I walked out and saw everyone. My dad was still oblivious about the place setting. He was actually going to take a picture of it and send it to me. My mom on the other had got a little curious. Even though I couldn't make my front door entrance, everyone was still surprised to see me. Tears of joy formed in my parents eyes as I gave them each a hug. Not going to lie, it was sorta hard to keep my visitation home a secret. Especially when my mom wants to ask me questions about staying in Phoenix and also wants to call me. I had to keep my answers very generic and in a way that I wasn't lying. For example, "So how's Phoenix?" "Everything you would expect." When my mom asked if she could call me I was sitting alone in the car with my nephew while my sister and brother-in-law were doing some shopping. I couldn't necessarily step out of the car, cause then she would hear traffic, but I couldn't stay in the car, because my nephew would have probably started to talk to me, plus he was watching movies on an iPod. So I replied with, "I'm really not in the mood to talk. It will be better tomorrow when I can Skype and see everyone." I'm sure seeing me in person was better than sending me texts and trying to call anyways.
Dinner was awesome as always and it was such a joy to spend it with all of my family. Definitely a Thanksgiving to remember. That night I drove home with my parents to spend the rest of the week with them. There was a couple of friends I was going to surprise also. They had no idea that I had come home. They also thought I was staying in Phoenix. It was so fun to surprise them too. I wish I could have recorded their reactions. Priceless. I spent the night playing games with them and going to Denny's, which is always a tradition with them.
For the rest of the week, I had no plans. I just wanted to relax and take in the sights and smells of home. I also didn't want to drive anywhere, because I was sick of driving and still had the drive home to deal with. My friends and I did go see, Perks of Being a Wallflower. I highly recommend this movie. It is now one of my top favorites. I guess I did get a haircut too. Which is always great. It's nice to get my haircut by someone I trust and who knows my style.
Sunday soon came and that meant it was time for me to head home to Arizona. David wanted to meet in Orem at 6 in the morning, which meant I had to leave my house at 4:30am. My awesome mom also woke up early to drive me down there. I was not excited for that long drive back, but I knew it had to happen. I slept a lot more on the drive home, which was nice. We arrived home at around 7 o'clock. I was so ready for bed. I unpacked, showered, then tucked myself in. I had practice in the morning and wanted some good sleep. At least practice was at 9am and not 3:30 or 4:30am.
Look at the awesome view. The view I saw most of the drive home...
All in all it was a great Thanksgiving break. After finals are done next
week I will be traveling home again. By airplane thank goodness. It is
still crazy to think that my first semester of college is almost done.
Many more to go...
Dad this is for you...Thanks for the new fish tank. Tiger and Ginger love it. I am going to get a couple more fish and possibly another plant or something so it doesn't look so spars.
Amanda's mom knitted each of us a stocking. Aren't they awesome? Even Dusting and Joelle got one. Crystal found the perfect spot to hang them. Plus we have a real Christmas tree! Crystal and I strung the lights yesterday, but we still need to decorate it. It makes our apartment smell so good. We are just getting in the Christmas season here in Apt. 2.
Happy Holidays!
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