I have the unique opportunity every year to go to a minimum of two Thanksgiving Day Dinner’s. There have been other years where I have visited other people’s family’s for what ever other reason for lunch or early mid-afternoon meals. But for dinner I have pretty much always had two dinners. This is in part due to my parent’s separating but it was something where my grandma on my Japanese side always liked to things herself in her own home. So the journey is we have dinner at 5pm at my Japanese grandma’s house which consists of myself, my sister, dad and grandma. Then after that and trying our best to pace ourselves around 630ish my sister and I will head to our Chinese side. This consists usually of my sister and me, my mom, at least 5 uncles and aunt’s, our Chinese grandma and at least 8 cousins and others. Here is the list of the top 11 items that I need to see at Thanksgiving dinner though as we seem to have quite the variety of food between the two meals.
What are some of the things you need to eat on Thanksgiving Day? Every family has it’s own traditions, maybe it’s Chinese Dinner 
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Honorable mention goes to Turducken (we had it last year for the first time), good gravy (this is a given), some Korean dish (my aunt and cousin always make something good for dinner every year)
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Tagged: dinner · must haves · random · thanksgiving · two dinners
So as I am typing this it is approximately 1017pm mountain time and 917pm pacific standard time right now. I have the Macbook hooked up to the newly jailbroken iPhone, I finally gave in thanks to a lot of persuasion. So up to this point this whole trip it has quite the journey. Filled with easy driving in cool weather to bad driving conditions in horrible weather. I do admit Aaron and driving in snow do not mix. And I also came to the conclusion that I will not be living where there is a possibility of black ice or where snow plows are a registered vehicle.
It is now Tuesday morning and I think we all got some of the best sleep we had in a really long time. I actually woke up at 630 in the morning and got to witness some of nature’s most beautiful scenery. Where we are located is a little north of Colorado Springs right by the Air Force Academy and surrounded by plenty of mountains. Pikes Peak is very visible from the house and a place I will definitely check out when the weather is warmer. The mountain range at dawn was quite the sight to see. It was one of those moments where you realized you were a small part of this large world. To bad I was to cold to try and find my camera or really get out of bed to enjoy it as much. Also I went back to bed soon after in hopes to jump back into the dream I had prior to awakening.
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Tagged: california · colorado · dawn · mini coooper · roadtrip · utah
