Over a week after Thanksgiving and we're STILL working on our leftovers! Once again, our very delicious meal was courtesy of Brian (with some respectable prepwork on my part) - I continue to be amazed by his ability to do things like brine and stuff a turkey, while my greatest accomplishment was designing a dough turkey:
As I referenced in my last post, this year had a lovely twist with our visitors, John, June, & Megan all the way from Tejas! They spent all week in Chi, joined us for Thanksgiving, and then Mego stayed through the weekend. Although this was a slightly less competitive holiday than last year's, I think it was to everyone's benefit :) The actual day was great, and beyond that we got in some good QT, lots of exploring, and a couple of delicious meals. Oh and a pickle ornament. Megan went ahead and bought that as a souvenir.
Here are a few shots from the weekend:
my first trip to Navy Pier with the McAdams clan
the ferris wheel yielded some awesome views of the city
then on Turkey Day...where all the magic happened!
my favorite spread of the year!
So John started asking us ridiculously subjective, arbitrary questions throughout the day like "POP QUIZ: What's the greatest band of all time?" etc. etc. The best one was:
"POP QUIZ: If Brian wants to take a nap after lunch, who else wants to take a nap?"
"You do?"
"That's right. You aced it."
ha.
Beginning to soak in the Christmas cheer at the Christkindl market downtown. Key notable in this photo - there were 39 other cabins like the one behind us, which Brian BUILT over the course of a few weeks. The man cooks and builds. Applause please!
Another great Thanksgiving gets checked off!
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