Thanksgiving and Black Friday...

Thanksgiving was great. We only had two guests coming, but Pam did her full Thanksgiving meal deal and it was great as usual. This year we had a Tur-Duc-Hen instead of a regular turkey. We purchased it already built. It is a boneless stuffed chicken inside of a boneless stuffed duck, inside of a boneless stuffed turkey and all sewed up to look like a regular turkey. Well, it was a little 'flatter' than a regular turkey as it came in a box and was sort of box shaped, but was very good. Here is a picture of the Box it came in...




It was very easy to carve. You just start at the neck end and cut down the middle of the breast and then do lateral cuts every 1" or so all the way down since there are no bones. Here is a picture of it after our meal was sliced out of it...



Our guests were Pam's sister Roberta and her friend Dawn. She said she brought Dawn so she wouldn't have to do any dishes because that was Dawn's job... A great time was had by all. We ended up all over stuffed like the Turkey. Our Gravy dispenser was as well, as you can see below...




So, after we got that all cleaned up and gave our guests a box full of leftovers to take to their families or pets, we pretty much rested for the next big event of the holiday weekend - Black Friday...

We got all the ads in the Thursday paper for all the great Black Friday sales and I went through them all and made up a list of all the stores, items and sales times. Pam was too worn out from all the cooking to get into it too much and left it up to me. The biggest sale was Best Buys. They open their doors at 6am, but start handing out tickets for their really hot items at 3am. So, Pam set the alarm for 2:15am and we got up and were there at Best Buys about 2:30am... The plan went so well, until we saw the line of 'crazier than us' folks that wrapped around the building with tents and sleeping bags and all. I later found out they had been there since 3pm on Thanksgiving day. O, yeah, the temp at 2:30am was 26degrees...

So, we went back home depressed and tired as the sales really didn't start until 6am and went back to sleep with a new alarm set. It went off at 5:30am and I was up. Pam told me to go for it and gave me approval, but decided that she wasn't that crazy - again...

I went to Best Buys and the store was packed. By then the temp had dropped to 18 degrees. There were lines that wrapped around the store. I picked up a few little items that were left and got into the back of the line. I started to talk to people and had all the tickets for the really good items and had been there for days. This one couple had pretty much everything. I told them I really wanted one of the E-machines Desktop system, with flat panel monitor and Cannon do-all printer that was on sale for $199. They had two of them and this guy in back of them said he would give them $50 for the ticket if he had it. I said I would give them $50 for it and pulled out a $50. They took it and I was very happy. Then, as I was going down the line at about 2 steps every 10 minutes, I saw another paper for this special $99 Kodak camera and digital frame laying there that someone had abandoned. I asked around and nobody claimed it so I picked it up also. Then, as the line went on, the girl in front of me, who had a Sony Laptop ticket, but really wanted a e-machines desktop, offered the folks in back of me $150 for their other e-machines ticket and they took it. Then, she had this sony laptop ticket which she didn't want anymore and gave it to me. This is a really nice full featured laptop that usually sells for $700-$900, for $399... These were the three items that I had wanted in the first place, so I was a really happy camper.

Anyway, I got them all and was out of there by 8:30am. That is how long this line too to check out... I then went to Home Depot to get some special tools, Sportsman's to get my annual supply of 2 for 1 socks, and Target for more toys and sale items. The Jeep was full and I was worn out. It was a very successful Black Friday again this year here in DaHo...