An Excellent Thanksgiving

Wowie...I can't believe it's been almost a week since Thanksgiving!  At this time last Wednesday we were in the car headed to Wisconsin.  We didn't get there until eleven o'clock at night - we were so tired!  We stayed at Katie's aunt and uncle's house, and when they showed us our room we collapsed on the bed and could have slept just like that in our clothes.  We could hardly keep our eyes open!

The next day, people were cooking Thanksgiving dinner already when we got up for breakfast!  They gave Katie the job of dumping peanuts and M&M's into a bowl for an appetizer - they figured it was one of the few things she couldn't mess up, since she is such an awful cook.  She almost got it right, but she didn't put in enough M&M's.  You can never have too many of those in your trail mix. :-)

There was a very nice bathroom at the house with lots of mirrors.  Hodel and I got changed into our Thanksgiving dresses and tried to make our hair look perfect.  Katie's aunt had the house all decorated for Christmas, and there were even Christmas decorations in the bathroom! 

The big table looked very pretty with all the good china and silverware out.  Once the table was set it was hard not to nag about when dinner would be ready!  Everything smelled so good and we were so hungry.

Our pictures kind of stop here, though, because as soon as we ate we were ready for bed again  We were all in a turkey coma!!  Hehe.

On Friday we had a very exciting day - we did not go Black Friday shopping; instead we went to the Pabst Mansion!  The Pabst Mansion is an old Victorian Era home that used to belong to the Pabst family, who got rich making beer.  Eww.  Now it is a museum you can visit to see how it might have looked back then.  The house was all decorated for Christmas and had a tree in every room - sometimes more than one tree!  Hodel and I were in awe.  One room had a gigantic dollhouse in it, and we could have looked at that for hours!  The only bad thing about the Pabst Mansion is that you are not allowed to take pictures inside it. :-(  We were very disappointed about that.  The only picture we could take was one of the outside, and it was even hard to get the whole house in the picture because it is so big and right in the middle of downtown Milwaukee, so there wasn't much room to back up without going into the street!  As ornate and fancy as it looks on the outside, it was ten times more inside.

If you go to the Pabst Mansion website, you can see some photos of the inside.  It was even cooler when we saw it, though, because of the Christmas decorations!  http://pabstmansion.com/index.html

And now tomorrow is December 1st - can you believe it??  Hanukkah and Christmas are coming fast!!