Black Friday

It's Black Friday, which means I'm avoiding legitimate shopping establishments like the plague! I'm sure that by the time I rolled out of bed, Andrea and her mom had already hit about six stores and finished all their Christmas shopping!

We do have a little shopping tradition here in Waxahachie, though. Whenever we're here for Thanksgiving, all the guys take an afternoon and go on a pawn shop tour of Waxahachie (the ladies stick to more reputable stores). This year, two of our regular stops were out of business. Guess this economy is hard on even pawn shops ... or maybe Ebay and Craigslist are squeezing them out. Probably a bit of both, I suppose.

After pawn shopping and lunch at Chick-fil-A, we came home and did a little skeet shooting! Turns out I'm a bit rusty. Joe and Tom were doing really well, which makes me wonder if maybe being under five feet tall is an advantage?

The rest of the afternoon was pretty laid back. Amber studied for her physics class for several hours ... Somehow her study technique is surprisingly reminiscent of napping :)

No Nealy family get together is complete without a bowl of Grandmother's punch, so after dinner we drank punch and played cards.

Tomorrow everyone starts clearing out. Sunday morning, I fly back to LAX to meet Pop and Gram in Banning where they hopefully haven't been blown away by the gale force winds!

And don't worry - they didn't spend Thanksgiving in a campground. Jim and Roe were kind enough to host Thanksgiving the day after they moved into their new place!