We started Thanksgiving by running errands around town. Later, we went to Chinatown for some boba drinks, tasty pork buns, and window shopping. While there, we did some photo shoots and later sold the photos to a few various buyers.
We got hungry again that night so we went to Longhorn Casino to take advantage of a Thanksgiving dinner special we'd seen awhile back. If I remember correctly, I think the dinner included a beverage, soup, bread rolls, cranberries, green beans, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, gravy, turkey, pumpkin pie,..maybe something else?
After that, I think we went to Sam's Town to play a credit or two of ITG in celebration of the special occasion.
ITG made us a little hungry and Thanksgiving night only had a few hours left in it so we went home after that and finally started to cook up all the groceries we'd bought in preparation for the holiday. Cooking took quite awhile but it was fun and I think we might have spent a small amount of time playing Nintendo while waiting for things to cook up. (Well, I probably watched while Sean played.) Finally, it was time to eat! The food was super awesome and super tasty and we enjoyed it all! Our dogs all enjoyed it too. Unfortunately though, Sammie kept eating long after he was full and ended up eating himself to death. :( He was super stuffed before he finally stopped eating. Then he went to lay down with the other dogs. His belly looked SO full though and he kept fidgeting around. Eventually, he started coughing. We tried everything to help him but the coughing got worse, he eventually started foaming at the mouth, and he couldn't breathe. He started collapsing on the floor and his tongue started turning blue. It all happened too fast and we felt so useless trying in vain to save him. He finally passed away. That really ruined Sean's night and had him feeling really down for the next few weeks too. We did manage to get on with things in the meantime though.
The next day, Black Friday, we waited outside our favorite thrift store, Epic Thrift, just before opening time. We weren't planning to take part in First Friday shopping this year. It's not usually our thing anyway. While shopping there not too long before, however, we'd seen signs saying they'd be having an awesome Black Friday sale where buyers could fill a bag (provided by them) to the top for $20! Buyers could buy as many bags full as they wanted too! Well, given the quality of items we knew we could find there, we couldn't pass it up. We waited outside Friday morning for the store to open and a few hours later wound up with 3 bags full ($64.86 total) with 110 items that the thrift store had had for sale on their shelved for a total of $591.90 before tax or about $639.25 after tax!! Who knows how much it would've cost to buy all the items retail but we paid 1/10 of the thrift store sale price! Wow.. Such an amazing deal! We got several things for ourselves, a few things for others, and a bunch of stuff to sell. We made profit on the items almost immediately and have been nonstop profiting from selling them ever since too!
Later, we took some Thanksgiving leftovers to Sunset Park to have a night time picnic. We took our leftovers and a blanket walking to find the perfect spot when we discovered a little picnic spot that must've been added to the park recently. It was really neat so we chose there to sit down and eat our foods together!
Lastly, we went to Walmart and bought our anual, traditional, giant, $10 box of chocolates we've gotten on Black Friday the past couple of years. Yummy! Can't wait for next Black Friday! :p
